M 5.6 in Kermadec Islands, New Zealand on 05 Mar 2021 00:58 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 1258750
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.0684 , -177.3308
Event Date: 05 Mar 2021 00:58 UTC
04 Mar 2021 12:58 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Mar 2021 01:23 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000dfrs Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 1082 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

Séisme en Nouvelle-Zélande – Un énorme séisme de magnitude 6,6 jours a ... Tue, 09 Mar 2021 00:29:00 +0100.

La NOUVELLE ZELANDE a été secouée par un puissant tremblement de terre de magnitude 6,6 juste au large de sa côte est, quelques jours après qu’une série de termors a déclenché une alerte au tsunami et des évacuations massives. Un certain no
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¡Noticias de última hora! Nueva Zelanda es golpeada por un terremoto d ... Tue, 09 Mar 2021 00:23:00 +0100.

Suara.com – Nueva Zelanda está sacudida por un terremoto de 6,6 en la escala de Richter frente a su costa este. Este incidente fue solo días después de una serie de terremotos en la misma zona, lo que generó temores de un tsunami y una evac
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Navy ship heads to remote Raoul Island to check tsunami warning system ... Tue, 09 Mar 2021 00:07:00 +0100.

A Navy crew is heading to remote Raoul Island, in the Kermadec Islands, to check in on the weather and tsunami warning systems there. Tsunami warnings were put in place across New Zealand last week, and people evacuated in Bay of Plenty and
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Guatemala, El Salvador, Perú y Chile emiten alerta de tsunami tras sis ... Mon, 08 Mar 2021 15:30:00 +0100.

emitieron este jueves una alerta de tsunami en la costa del país al Océano Pacífico, tras “información recibida” por el Centro de Alertas de Tsunamis del Pacífico. El Instituto Nacional de Sismología, Vulcanología, Meteorología e Hidrología
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),