M 4.6 in New Zealand on 26 Jan 2020 10:20 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1203562
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -35.6395 , -179.3532
Event Date: 26 Jan 2020 10:20 UTC
25 Jan 2020 22:20 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Jan 2020 11:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us60007gef Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 398 | About casualties: 24 | Last hour: 0

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Quinze communes de plus en catastrophe naturelleThu, 30 Jan 2020 06:23:00 +0100.

C’est officiel. 13 nouvelles communes ardéchoises sont désormais reconnues en état de catastrophe naturelle à la suite du séisme du 11 novembre. Françoise Souliman, préfète de l’Ardèche, l’avait annoncé. L’arrêté a été publié ce 29 janvier
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Shaken Caribbean tiptoes back to normal after shock of major quakeThu, 30 Jan 2020 05:35:00 +0100.

Waves splash from a pool during an earthquake in George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands January 28, 2020. — REALVISION.COM image via Reuters. KINGSTON, Jan 30 — Shaken Caribbean residents and tourists said yesterday that life was returni
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Cabinet shaken by quake tremorsThu, 30 Jan 2020 05:09:00 +0100.

By RASHAD ROLLE. Tribune Staff Reporter. rrolle@tribunemedia.net. TREMORS from a powerful regional earthquake disrupted a Cabinet meeting and forced dozens along New Providence’s northern coast to evacuate their multi-storey office building
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),