M 4.8 in New Zealand on 12 Oct 2021 01:55 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 1289773
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 165.44 Km
Lat/Lon: -40.1901 , 173.4838
Event Date: 12 Oct 2021 01:55 UTC
12 Oct 2021 13:55 Local
Exposed Population:
30 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 20 Oct 2021 05:40 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ftvr Scaled population (vector) 3.44  
  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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 543 | About casualties: 34 | Last hour: 0

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Live-event La Palma volcano LIVE: Horror as lava 'tsunami' barrels dow ... 2021-10-15T22:43+0200.

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Canarie: terremoto di magnitudo 4,5 provoca nuovo fiume di lava, altri ... 2021-10-15T21:15+0200.

Canarie | terremoto di magnitudo 4 | 5 provoca nuovo fiume di lava | altri 300 evacuati - VIDEO Un secondo terremoto di magnitudo 4,5, dopo quello del 14 ottobre, ha fatto nuovamente tremare l'isola ... Canarie: terremoto di magnitudo 4,5
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Canarie: terremoto di magnitudo 4,5 provoca nuovo fiume di lava, altri ... 2021-10-15T20:52+0200.

. Un secondo terremoto di magnitudo 4,5, dopo quello del 14 ottobre, ha fatto nuovamente tremare l'isola di La Palma, nelle Canarie, e ha provocato una nuova colata di lava dal cratere del Cumbre Vieja. Le ultime due scosse sono state le p
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),