M 5.6 in New Zealand on 04 Mar 2021 21:04 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 1258681
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -37.7763 , -179.8765
Event Date: 04 Mar 2021 21:04 UTC
04 Mar 2021 09:04 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Mar 2021 21:40 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000dfmt Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1453 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

Texas Earthquake System Strengthens National NetworkMon, 08 Mar 2021 17:32:00 +0100.

Now in its fifth year of operation, the Bureau of Economic Geology’s TexNet earthquake monitoring system manages more than 150 seismic stations throughout Texas and has been integrated into the country’s national monitoring system operated
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Texas Earthquake System Strengthens National NetworkMon, 08 Mar 2021 17:19:00 +0100.

Now in its fifth year of operation, the Bureau of Economic Geology’s TexNet earthquake monitoring system manages more than 150 seismic stations throughout Texas and has been integrated into the country’s national monitoring system operated
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Japan's Seawalls Ten Years after the Great East Japan Earthquake and T ... Mon, 08 Mar 2021 17:09:00 +0100.

epa09061940 Fishermen talk to each other after their fishing at a port of Taro district devastated by the 2011 tsunami and earthquake, in Miyako, Iwate prefecture, northern Japan, 22 February 2021 (issued 08 March 2021). The fishermen said
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Meet the man who saves forgotten cats in Fukushima's nuclear zoneMon, 08 Mar 2021 17:02:00 +0100.

A decade ago, Sakae Kato stayed behind to rescue cats abandoned by neighbours who fled the radiation clouds belching from the nearby Fukushima nuclear plant. He won’t leave. “I want to make sure I am here to take care of the last one,” he s
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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),