M 5.3 in Kermadec Islands Region on 29 Nov 2020 21:45 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 1245641
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 457.58 Km
Lat/Lon: -31.8646 , 179.2345
Event Date: 29 Nov 2020 21:45 UTC
30 Nov 2020 09:45 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Nov 2020 03:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000cl01 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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News Magnitude 4.8 quake strikes MasbateMon, 30 Nov 2020 01:49:00 +0100.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),