M 5.2 in New Zealand on 05 Jan 2017 11:17 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 1102568
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 19.01 Km
Lat/Lon: -41.8639 , 174.0804
Event Date: 05 Jan 2017 11:17 UTC
06 Jan 2017 00:17 Local
Exposed Population:
120000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Jan 2017 11:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us10007rb1 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),