M 5 in New Zealand on 01 Jan 2014 14:23 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 1021977
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 61.01 Km
Lat/Lon: -35.4905 , -179.1906
Event Date: 01 Jan 2014 14:23 UTC
01 Jan 2014 02:23 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Jan 2014 16:17 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),