M 6.3 in New Zealand on 06 Mar 2021 00:16 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 1259020
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 13 Km
Lat/Lon: -37.6306 , 179.586
Event Date: 06 Mar 2021 00:16 UTC
06 Mar 2021 12:16 Local
Exposed Population: About 100 people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Mar 2021 22:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.1 0.1
us7000dg8x Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0.11m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.63      
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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 (91), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),