M 4.8 in Kermadec Islands Region on 17 Oct 2020 14:19 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 1239687
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -31.357 , -177.6871
Event Date: 17 Oct 2020 14:19 UTC
17 Oct 2020 02:19 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Oct 2020 14:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000c8zt Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Nueva ZelandaWed, 07 Oct 2020 15:59:00 +0200.

Este lunes las islas Kermadec, un archipiélago perteneciente a Nueva Zelanda en el Pacífico, fueron sacudidas por un terremoto de magnitud 5,4. Hasta el momento... El ministro de Salud de Nueva Zelanda, David Clark, se dijo a sí mismo un “
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),