M 5 in Kermadec Islands Region on 14 Jan 2022 15:09 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 1305937
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -28.2815 , -176.7216
Event Date: 14 Jan 2022 15:09 UTC
14 Jan 2022 03:09 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 14 Jan 2022 15:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000gbyy Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 7 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Terremoti: forti scosse nel Pacifico hanno messo alla prova la nuova r ... 2021-12-29T13:48+0100.

(a) Epicentri e meccanismi focali (MF) del terremoto di Raoul Island (stella e MF rossi) e dei due terremoti precedenti (stelle e MF verdi); i triangoli gialli indicano le posizioni dei mareografi e dei DART utilizzati in questo studio. (b)
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Contorted oceanic plate caused complex quake off New Zealand’s East Ca ... 2021-12-27T23:26+0100.

Subduction zones, where a slab of oceanic plate is pushed beneath another tectonic plate down into the mantle, cause the world’s largest and most destructive earthquakes. Reconstructing the geometry and stress conditions of the subducted sl
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),