M 4.5 in New Zealand on 24 Oct 2020 11:06 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 1240734
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 80.83 Km
Lat/Lon: -38.5361 , 177.8027
Event Date: 24 Oct 2020 11:06 UTC
25 Oct 2020 00:06 Local
Exposed Population:
About 88000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Oct 2020 12:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000cckc Scaled population (vector) 5.14  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.33  
  INFORM_normalised 0.63  
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Latest media headlines

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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),