M 4.6 in New Zealand on 10 Nov 2025 18:51 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 1509741
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 236.8 Km
Lat/Lon: -38.8562 , 175.0747
Event Date: 10 Nov 2025 18:51 UTC
11 Nov 2025 07:51 Local
Exposed Population:
140 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 10 Nov 2025 19:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000rmn1 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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),