M 5.8 in New Zealand on 24 Jan 2021 05:47 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 1252899
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -51.1834 , 162.1096
Event Date: 24 Jan 2021 05:47 UTC
24 Jan 2021 16:47 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Jan 2021 06:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000d2ty Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 302 | About casualties: 26 | Last hour: 0

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17:28 | SEISME La terre tremble à Grenade, le Premier ministre espagno ... Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:22:00 +0100.

) a été touchée par plusieurs secousses sismiques dans la nuit de mardi à mercredi, sans faire de blessés ni de dommages matériels importants mais conduisant le Premier ministre à lancer un appel au calme. « Plusieurs secousses ont fait de
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Landslide damages buildings in Rota Greca, 40 people evacuated, ItalyWed, 27 Jan 2021 16:20:00 +0100.

A large landslide caused by heavy rains hit the southern Italian town of Rota Greca on Tuesday, January 26, 2021, resulting in damaged buildings and the evacuation of around 40 people. According to fire crews, three buildings upstream from
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Piden actualizar la normativa sismorresistente: "Desde el terremoto de ... Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:47:00 +0100.

El Ilustre Colegio Oficial de Geólogos (ICOG) aboga por actualizar los mapas de peligrosidad sísmica con los nuevos datos como mejor método de prevención y recuerda que el hecho de que se produzcan pequeños evita que la energía acumulada e
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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),