M 5.6 in New Zealand on 24 May 2020 19:53 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 1219524
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 51.89 Km
Lat/Lon: -40.3929 , 174.966
Event Date: 24 May 2020 19:53 UTC
25 May 2020 07:53 Local
Exposed Population: About 6000 people in MMI
560000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 May 2020 20:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70009pku Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.63  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 511 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

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New Zealand hit by second earthquake in two daysThu, 28 May 2020 02:21:00 +0200.

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),