M 6.9 in Kermadec Islands, New Zealand on 04 Mar 2023 06:41 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 1363052
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.9M
Depth: 205.681 Km
Lat/Lon: -29.4748 , -178.7874
Event Date: 04 Mar 2023 06:41 UTC
03 Mar 2023 18:41 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at: 04 Mar 2023 06:58 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us7000jh99 Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
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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), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (2), NOAA (1),