M 4.5 in Russian Federation on 06 Mar 2017 01:26 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 1107112
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 43.4216 , 45.8099
Event Date: 06 Mar 2017 01:26 UTC
06 Mar 2017 04:26 Local
Exposed Population:
1700000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Mar 2017 22:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Russia= 4.6; Georgia= 3.4

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008771 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 438 | About casualties: 32 | Last hour: 0

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Die Wahrheit unter TrümmernThu, 09 Mar 2017 23:49:00 +0100.

An der Kraftwerksruine in Fukushima arbeiten täglich 6000 Leute; das wird sich bis zum Jahr 2050 kaum ändern. So lange werden Bergung und Rückbau des zerstörten AKW mindestens dauern. Nach neuester Schätzung kosten sie 175 Milliarden Euro,
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REVEALED: First ever photos of radioactive wild boar roaming wasteland ... Thu, 09 Mar 2017 23:44:00 +0100.

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Die Wahrheit unter TrümmernThu, 09 Mar 2017 23:39:00 +0100.

An der Kraftwerksruine in Fukushima arbeiten täglich 6000 Leute; das wird sich bis zum Jahr 2050 kaum ändern. So lange werden Bergung und Rückbau des zerstörten AKW mindestens dauern. Nach neuester Schätzung kosten sie 175 Milliarden Euro,
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),