M 4.5 in Russian Federation on 21 Dec 2016 23:55 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 1101506
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 66.01 Km
Lat/Lon: 53.1996 , 160.0935
Event Date: 21 Dec 2016 23:55 UTC
22 Dec 2016 11:55 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1279 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Dec 2016 00:25 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007luz 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)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1874 | About casualties: 71 | Last hour: 0

Autoridades de Chile cancelan alerta de tsumani tras sismo de 7,6 grad ... Sun, 25 Dec 2016 23:36:00 +0100.

La Oficina Nacional de Emergencia del Ministerio del Interior (Onemi) de Chile levantó el alerta y cambió la situación a estado de “precaución” tras el sismo de 7,6 en la escala de Richter que se sintió en el sur Chile y la posibilidad de q
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7.6-magnitude quake jolts Chile, no victims reportedSun, 25 Dec 2016 23:34:00 +0100.

SANTIAGO， Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- A 7.6-magnitude earthquake rattled southern Chile on Sunday， sparking fears of a tsunami， but causing no casualties. Chile's National Emergency Office (Onemi) initially ordered the evacuation of residents along
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Terremoto de 7.6 grados en Chile deja daños menoresSun, 25 Dec 2016 23:33:00 +0100.

Un terremoto de 7.6 grados en la escala de Richter afectó este domingo el sur de Chile que provocó una alerta de tsunami en cinco regiones, sin que se hayan reportado personas afectadas o daños materiales, informó la Oficina Nacional de Eme
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Powerful 7.6 earthquake shakes Southern ChileSun, 25 Dec 2016 23:33:00 +0100.

SANTIAGO: A powerful earthquake shook southern Chile on Sunday, but there were no immediate reports of deaths and only minor known damage. The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 7.6 quake struck at 11:22 a.m. local time (9:22 a.m. ES
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),