M 8.1 Earthquake and Tsunami (2.4 m) in Kermadec Islands, New Zealand from 04 Mar 2021 19:28 UTC to 19:28

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1258647
Earthquake Magnitude: 8.1M
Depth: 19.4 Km
Lat/Lon: -29.7399 , -177.2672
Event Date: 04 Mar 2021 19:28 UTC
04 Mar 2021 07:28 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Mar 2021 20:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 1.7 1.7
us7000dflf Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 2.4m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 2.4m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1903 | About casualties: 17 | Last hour: 0

Guatemala, El Salvador, Perú y Chile emiten alerta de tsunami tras sis ... Mon, 08 Mar 2021 15:30:00 +0100.

emitieron este jueves una alerta de tsunami en la costa del país al Océano Pacífico, tras “información recibida” por el Centro de Alertas de Tsunamis del Pacífico. El Instituto Nacional de Sismología, Vulcanología, Meteorología e Hidrología
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Civil Defence In Hawke's Bay Reassures Public It Has Resolved Website ... Mon, 08 Mar 2021 05:30:00 +0100.

The National Emergency Management Agency, the official agency for providing New Zealand tsunami advisories and warnings issued a beach and marine threat for Hawke's Bay after Friday’s morning’s third large earthquake at 8.28am, an 8.1 earth
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New Zealand's tsunami trifecta a rare occurrence, expert saysMon, 08 Mar 2021 04:58:00 +0100.

The three big offshore earthquakes that triggered a tsunami warning sending hundreds of thousands of Kiwis to higher ground, could make it into the history books as the sequence has never been recorded before. On Friday more than 50,000 Kiw
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Kermadecs quakes: Why tsunami warnings last as long as they doMon, 08 Mar 2021 00:45:00 +0100.

On Friday a severe earthquake near the Kermadec Islands sparked tsunami alerts around the Pacific and left thousands of New Zealanders fleeing to higher ground. The 8.1 quake was the biggest of three major events in the oceans off New Zeala
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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (91), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (2), NOAA (1),