M 4.7 in New Zealand on 29 Dec 2015 23:36 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 1077393
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 38.1 Km
Lat/Lon: -40.626 , 176.0777
Event Date: 29 Dec 2015 23:36 UTC
30 Dec 2015 12:36 Local
Exposed Population:
268502 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Dec 2015 00:33 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  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),