M 5 in Kermadec Islands, New Zealand on 16 Apr 2021 20:00 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 1265025
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.4009 , -177.816
Event Date: 16 Apr 2021 20:00 UTC
16 Apr 2021 08:00 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Apr 2021 15:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000e27t Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 40 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

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Peter Mungo Jupp: The Black Death and Cosmic ChaosWed, 14 Apr 2021 14:27:00 +0200.

Archaeologist and Thunderbolts colleague Peter Mungo Jupp presents a radical idea that civilization-destroying plagues may be governed by electromagnetism such as cosmic rays. Nature often uses triggers based on hard to pinpoint factors whe
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New Zealand minister Kiri Allan to take medical leave after cervical c ... Tue, 06 Apr 2021 02:47:00 +0200.

Kiri Allan, the minister who guided New Zealand through recent tsunami and earthquake warnings , has been diagnosed with stage three cervical cancer. Allan won praise for her calm handling of last month’s earthquakes and tsunami warning. A
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),