M 6.7 in New Zealand on 25 Mar 2025 01:43 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 1473943
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.7M
Depth: 21 Km
Lat/Lon: -46.708 , 165.933
Event Date: 25 Mar 2025 01:43 UTC
25 Mar 2025 12:43 Local
Exposed Population: Few people affected in MMI&>=IV
Inserted at: 25 Mar 2025 02:29 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.1 0.1
us7000pmem Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0.11m  
  C1 shakemap 0 Max wave realtime 0.11m  
  C2 shakemap 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Meteo assessment
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. 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)

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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 (91), (5), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),