M 4.8 in New Zealand on 21 Jan 2021 13:51 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 1252572
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 31.53 Km
Lat/Lon: -45.1688 , 166.7644
Event Date: 21 Jan 2021 13:51 UTC
22 Jan 2021 02:51 Local
Exposed Population:
About 6000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Jan 2021 14:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000d22u Scaled population (vector) 2.97  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.33  
  INFORM_normalised 0.63  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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),