M 5.5 in Russian Federation on 28 Dec 2018 13:03 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 1166503
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 49.35 Km
Lat/Lon: 44.1998 , 148.5833
Event Date: 28 Dec 2018 13:03 UTC
28 Dec 2018 23:03 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Dec 2018 13:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000iym6 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 119 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

Watch the world ring in 2019Tue, 01 Jan 2019 09:38:00 +0100.

See celebrations from New Zealand to New York City as the world welcomes 2019. Jan. 1, 2019 Read More. Race to find survivors after explosion tears through Russian apartment building 00:48; What really happened to the Neanderthals? TODAY
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El dron submarino ruso "del Juicio Final" que teme OccidenteMon, 31 Dec 2018 05:13:00 +0100.

Las capacidades y las posibles consecuencias del uso del vehículo subacuático no tripulado de propulsión atómica Poseidón , destinado a convertirse en un nuevo recurso de disuasión nuclear de Rusia, son motivo de preocupación entre algunos
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Russia and China in Joint Venture of Changing the Earth’s AtmosphereMon, 31 Dec 2018 00:43:00 +0100.

-- December 30, 2018) -- Chinese scientists have announced that Russia and China are working together on a project to ionize the Earth's atmosphere for research purposes, the South China Morning Post reports. According to the report both co
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Taliban dismiss Afghanistan's peace talks offerSun, 30 Dec 2018 13:54:00 +0100.

Representatives from the Taliban, the United States and regional countries met this month in the United Arab Emirates for talks to end the 17-year war in Afghanistan. But the Taliban have refused to hold formal talks with the Western-backed
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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),