Overall Green Earthquake alert in New Zealand on 21 Oct 2025 16:42 UTC

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M 4.5 in New Zealand on 21 Oct 2025 16:42 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 1506365
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	281.1 Km
Lat/Lon:	-37.6435 , 176.1874
Event Date:	21 Oct 2025 16:42 UTC 22 Oct 2025 05:42 Local
Exposed Population:	650 thousand in MMI II
Inserted at:	22 Oct 2025 21:20 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000rii0	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 rapid impact	0
	C2 rapid impact	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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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),

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