M 4.9 in New Zealand on 30 Aug 2025 11:31 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 1498137
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 77.9 Km
Lat/Lon: -41.0401 , 173.8101
Event Date: 30 Aug 2025 11:31 UTC
30 Aug 2025 23:31 Local
Exposed Population: 20 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 30 Aug 2025 11:50 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000qsjm Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Meteo assessment
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

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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),