M 6.1 in Kermadec Islands Region on 24 Jul 2021 12:51 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 1278518
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 7.03 Km
Lat/Lon: -29.9688 , -176.9274
Event Date: 24 Jul 2021 12:51 UTC
24 Jul 2021 00:51 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Jul 2021 14:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000eynb 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.
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

Articles: 179 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

Tropical storm dumps rain on northern Japan, spares Olympics2021-07-28T10:29+0200.

RIFU, Japan (AP) — A tropical storm dumped rain in parts of northern Japan on Wednesday after moving away from the Tokyo region and relieving the Olympic host city of a feared disruption to the games. In Sendai, some trains were delayed and
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Tropical storm dumps rain on northern Japan, spares Olympics2021-07-28T09:31+0200.

RIFU, Japan (AP) — A tropical storm has dumped rain in parts of northern Japan with little of the disruption to the Olympics that had been feared. In Sendai, some trains were delayed and pedestrians braced themselves against the wind on the
...(more)
Tropical storm dumps rain on northern Japan, spares Olympics2021-07-28T09:26+0200.

RIFU, Japan (AP) — A tropical storm dumped rain in parts of northern Japan on Wednesday after moving away from the Tokyo region and relieving the Olympic host city of a feared disruption to the games. In Sendai, some trains were delayed and
...(more)
Tropical Storm Dumps Rain on Northern Japan, Spares Olympics2021-07-28T09:09+0200.

A tropical storm dumped rain in parts of northern Japan on Wednesday after moving away from the Tokyo region and relieving the Olympic host city of a feared disruption to the games. In Sendai, some trains were delayed and pedestrians braced
...(more)

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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), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),