M 5.6 in New Zealand on 02 Aug 2026 08:35 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 1555671
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 52.8 Km
Lat/Lon: -37.73 , 178.3287
Event Date: 02 Aug 2026 08:35 UTC
02 Aug 2026 20:35 Local
Exposed Population: 30 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 02 Aug 2026 08:53 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000thl3 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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Latest media headlines

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WELLINGTON, 2nd August, 2026 (WAM) -- An earthquake ?measuring magnitude ?5.9 struck off ?the east ?coast of New ?Zealand''s ?North Island ?on Sunday, the German ?Research ?Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) ?said. The earthquake struck at a dept
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5.9 magnitude quake strikes New Zealand''s North Island 8/2/2026 2:12:00 PM.

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WELLINGTON, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck the area near the town of Te Araroa on New Zealand''s North Island on Sunday evening, the country''s earthquake monitoring agency reported. The tremor, with a depth of 36 km,
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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),