M 4.9 in New Zealand on 07 Jul 2026 20:33 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 1550654
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 121.4 Km
Lat/Lon: -37.2165 , 177.4292
Event Date: 07 Jul 2026 20:33 UTC
08 Jul 2026 08:33 Local
Exposed Population: 150 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 07 Jul 2026 20:52 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000tasa Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. 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)

Latest media headlines

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BEIJING, July 8 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted off the east coast of North Island, New Zealand, at 2033 GMT on Tuesday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10 km, was
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),