M 5.6 in New Zealand on 05 May 2023 11:37 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 1372626
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 194.254 Km
Lat/Lon: -37.3037 , 177.2732
Event Date: 05 May 2023 11:37 UTC
05 May 2023 23:37 Local
Exposed Population: 30 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 05 May 2023 11:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000k9qv 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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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),