M 4.5 in New Zealand on 28 Dec 2021 15:56 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 1303791
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10.19 Km
Lat/Lon: -41.7459 , 174.197
Event Date: 28 Dec 2021 15:56 UTC
29 Dec 2021 04:56 Local
Exposed Population:
490 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 28 Dec 2021 16:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gfvp Scaled population (vector) 5.32  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.33  
  INFORM_normalised 0.63  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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