M 5.6 in Russian Federation on 15 Mar 2017 22:19 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 1107896
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 22.68 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.2211 , 179.0567
Event Date: 15 Mar 2017 22:19 UTC
15 Mar 2017 13:19 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Mar 2017 16:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008sd8 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 396 | About casualties: 33 | Last hour: 0

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6.0-magnitude earthquake hits off Solomon IslandsSun, 19 Mar 2017 20:36:00 +0100.

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2), CALTECH (1),