M 5.5 in New Zealand on 23 Jul 2019 23:08 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 1184354
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -33.8173 , -179.5119
Event Date: 23 Jul 2019 23:08 UTC
23 Jul 2019 11:08 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Jul 2019 23:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us60004uec Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),