M 4.7 in Russian Federation on 07 Aug 2016 14:12 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 1091445
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 47.4711 , 156.2496
Event Date: 07 Aug 2016 14:12 UTC
08 Aug 2016 00:12 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Aug 2016 14:51 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006by4 Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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 (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),