M 4.6 in New Zealand on 23 Aug 2020 09:26 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 1231419
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 191.3 Km
Lat/Lon: -35.7123 , 178.3658
Event Date: 23 Aug 2020 09:26 UTC
23 Aug 2020 21:26 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Aug 2020 09:44 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000bjci Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),