M 6.2 in Kermadec Islands Region on 26 Apr 2013 06:53 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 124303
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 349 Km
Lat/Lon: -28.7357 , -178.916
Event Date: 26 Apr 2013 06:53 UTC
25 Apr 2013 18:53 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Apr 2013 08:17 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
usb000gg01 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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Meteo assessment
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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),