M 4.5 in New Zealand on 13 Feb 2022 14:31 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 1309941
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 6.9 Km
Lat/Lon: -44.084 , 168.7354
Event Date: 13 Feb 2022 14:31 UTC
14 Feb 2022 03:31 Local
Exposed Population:
20 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 13 Feb 2022 19:22 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000gkj7 Scaled population (vector) 4.07  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.33  
  INFORM_normalised 0.63  
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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),