M 4.9 in New Zealand on 13 Jan 2026 10:21 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 1519302
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 22.8 Km
Lat/Lon: -40.6855 , 176.1391
Event Date: 13 Jan 2026 10:21 UTC
13 Jan 2026 23:21 Local
Exposed Population: 240 thousand in MMI&>=III
Inserted at: 13 Jan 2026 10:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000rpdh 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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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. 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)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),