M 4.9 in New Zealand on 25 Mar 2025 09:04 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 1473996
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -46.7295 , 165.9527
Event Date: 25 Mar 2025 09:04 UTC
25 Mar 2025 20:04 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people affected in MMI&>=II
Inserted at: 25 Mar 2025 10:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000pmgv Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Exposed population

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Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),