M 7.3 in New Zealand on 04 Mar 2021 13:27 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 1258526
Earthquake Magnitude: 7.3M
Depth: 20.78 Km
Lat/Lon: -37.5628 , 179.4443
Event Date: 04 Mar 2021 13:27 UTC
05 Mar 2021 01:27 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI VI
About 700 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Mar 2021 15:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)
Maximum Wave Height observed: 0.28 m

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.5 0.5
us7000dffl Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0.58m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0.58m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.63      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (91), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),