Overall Green Earthquake alert in New Zealand on 01 Nov 2015 05:42 UTC

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M 5.3 in New Zealand on 01 Nov 2015 05:42 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 1070853
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.3M
Depth:	54.74 Km
Lat/Lon:	-39.4141 , 175.9446
Event Date:	01 Nov 2015 05:42 UTC 01 Nov 2015 18:42 Local
Exposed Population:	261239 people within 100km
Inserted at:	01 Nov 2015 06:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.2		0.2
	Scaled population (vector)	n.a
	C1 earthquake	n.a
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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Latest media headlines

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Fox Glacier plane crash investigation lacked resources - report 10/28/2015 10:52:00 PM.

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President Tan praises efforts to rebuild Christchurch 10/28/2015 10:21:00 PM.

Devastated in large parts by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake four years ago, the city of Christchurch is slowly getting back on its feet. Yesterday, President Tony Tan Keng Yam arrived in the city amid rain to learn about its ongoing rebuilding

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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