M 4.6 in New Zealand on 25 Oct 2020 09:14 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 1240857
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 48.26 Km
Lat/Lon: -37.8393 , 177.6062
Event Date: 25 Oct 2020 09:14 UTC
25 Oct 2020 22:14 Local
Exposed Population:
About 87000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Oct 2020 09:50 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ccxa Scaled population (vector) 4.73  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.33  
  INFORM_normalised 0.63  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),