M 4.7 in South Of Kermadec Islands on 16 May 2021 08:28 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 1268966
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -32.0735 , -178.0968
Event Date: 16 May 2021 08:28 UTC
15 May 2021 20:28 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 May 2021 08:50 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000e3im Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),