M 5.1 in New Zealand on 14 Nov 2016 06:42 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 1098360
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 8.75 Km
Lat/Lon: -41.8672 , 174.3707
Event Date: 14 Nov 2016 06:42 UTC
14 Nov 2016 19:42 Local
Exposed Population:
367515 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Nov 2016 06:58 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100077kw 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.
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),