M 4.9 in New Zealand on 29 Aug 2020 12:45 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 1232228
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -37.0192 , 177.118
Event Date: 29 Aug 2020 12:45 UTC
30 Aug 2020 00:45 Local
Exposed Population: About 1000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Aug 2020 12:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000besr Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.63  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 252 | About casualties: 31 | Last hour: 0

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),