M 5.1 in Kermadec Islands, New Zealand on 24 Feb 2017 16:39 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 1106358
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -29.981 , -177.0076
Event Date: 24 Feb 2017 16:39 UTC
24 Feb 2017 04:39 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Feb 2017 17:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008m2u 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: 278 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

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Fuerte sismo sin consecuencias en Japón, en la región de FukushimaTue, 28 Feb 2017 16:17:00 +0100.

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El reactor nuclear más avanzado del mundo empieza a operar en el oeste ... Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:14:00 +0100.

Moscú, 28 feb (Sputnik). – El reactor nuclear más potente de Rusia y el primero en el mundo construido con tecnologías “post Fukushima” entró en operación en el oeste del país, informó Rosenergoatom, el operador nacional de las plantas nucl
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Última etapa de Parque de Mitigación en costanera de Dichato presenta ... Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:13:00 +0100.

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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),