M 4.7 in New Zealand on 07 Dec 2021 09:04 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 1300336
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 172.29 Km
Lat/Lon: -38.327 , 175.912
Event Date: 07 Dec 2021 09:04 UTC
07 Dec 2021 22:04 Local
Exposed Population:
590 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 07 Dec 2021 09:29 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000g9zm Scaled population (vector) 5.69  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.33  
  INFORM_normalised 0.63  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 273 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

Previously Unrecorded Chilean Tsunami Identified2021-12-10T19:14+0100.

A large earthquake off the coast of south-central Chile in 1737 may have caused a substantial tsunami that was absent from historical records, according to new research published in the Nature journal, Communications Earth & Environment tod
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Light mag. 4.2 earthquake - New Zealand on Friday, December 10, 2021 a ... 2021-12-10T16:51+0100.

10 Dec 15:08 UTC First to report: GEONET (NZ) after 3 minutes. 10 Dec 15:23 : Magnitude recalculated from 4.2 to 4.0. Hypocenter depth recalculated from 167.9 to 215.0 km (from 104 to 134 mi). Epicenter location corrected by 29 km (18 mi) t
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An unidentified tsunami hit Chile in the 18th century2021-12-10T12:08+0100.

A major earthquake off the south-central coast of Chile in 1737 may have caused a huge tsunami absent in historical records, according to new research published this Thursday in the journal . The discovery suggests that these records by th
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Canada: un nouveau type de tremblement de terre détecté2021-12-10T11:57+0100.

Canada: un nouveau type de tremblement de terre détecté Ottawa, Un nouveau type de tremblement de terre a été détecté par des chercheurs canadiens dans une région où se pratique la fracturation hydraulique en Colombie-Britannique.

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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),