M 4.6 in New Zealand on 31 Dec 2021 06:37 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 1304110
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 57.29 Km
Lat/Lon: -37.3749 , 177.7688
Event Date: 31 Dec 2021 06:37 UTC
31 Dec 2021 19:37 Local
Exposed Population:
30 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 31 Dec 2021 06:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000g84j Scaled population (vector) 3.86  
  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

Articles: 400 | About casualties: 28 | Last hour: 0

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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),