M 4.9 in Russian Federation on 03 Mar 2017 23:31 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 1106961
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 34.65 Km
Lat/Lon: 54.7632 , 168.0497
Event Date: 03 Mar 2017 23:31 UTC
04 Mar 2017 11:31 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Mar 2017 00:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100086vq Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),