M 5.4 in Off E. Coast Of N. Island, N.Z. on 22 Jan 2017 21:00 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 1103848
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 54.14 Km
Lat/Lon: -37.94 , 177.73
Event Date: 22 Jan 2017 21:00 UTC
23 Jan 2017 10:00 Local
Exposed Population: About 77000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Jan 2017 21:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007uvw Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

"L'impatto ci sarà fra un mese" Leggo 1/26/2017 8:35:00 PM.

Tra un mese la Terra sarà colpita da un asteroide che innescherà dei distruttivi tsunami. Si tratta di un asteroide che la Nasa ha identificato nella traiettoria del nostro pianeta e che tiene sotto controllo, anche se passerà a 51 milioni
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"Un asteroide colpirà la Terra il mese prossimo", la previsione choc: .. 1/26/2017 7:56:00 PM.

Tra un mese la Terra sarà colpita da un asteroide che innescherà dei distruttivi tsunami. Si tratta di un asteroide che la Nasa ha identificato nella traiettoria del nostro pianeta e che tiene sotto controllo, anche se passerà a 51 milioni
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Last ‘Big One’ happened 317 years ago today in the Pacific Northwest —.. 1/26/2017 7:11:00 PM.

The 2001 Nisqually earthquake destroyed the outside wall of many buildings such as this one in Pioneer Square. State residents are unprepared for a megaquake, with FEMA estimating 9,400 Washingtonians would die. (Tom Reese / The Seattle Tim
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Sismo de magnitud 5.1 sacudió el noreste de Japón 1/26/2017 6:56:00 PM.

Este jueves un terremoto de magnitud 5.1 en la escala de Richter sacudió el noreste de Japón , sin dejar víctimas ni daños materiales. Así lo informaron las autoridades locales, quienes detallaron que el hecho no produjo una alerta de tsuna
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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 (47), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),