M 5 in New Zealand on 03 Jan 2023 16:39 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 1352980
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -37.6931 , 175.7248
Event Date: 03 Jan 2023 16:39 UTC
04 Jan 2023 05:39 Local
Exposed Population: 3 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 03 Jan 2023 17:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000j1vk Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),