M 5.7 in Russian Federation on 20 Feb 2020 18:57 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 1207270
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 33.52 Km
Lat/Lon: 53.6379 , 160.7765
Event Date: 20 Feb 2020 18:57 UTC
21 Feb 2020 05:57 Local
Exposed Population: About 900 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Feb 2020 19:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70007trb Scaled population (raster) 2.42  
  C1 earthquake 0.74  
  C2 earthquake -0.13  
  Country Vulnerability -0.43  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 42 | About casualties: 17 | Last hour: 0

Turkish, Iranian FMs discuss COVID-19 over phoneMon, 24 Feb 2020 14:56:00 +0100.

Turkey’s foreign minister and his Iranian counterpart on Monday discussed the coronavirus outbreak as well as yesterday’s earthquake which struck eastern Turkey near Iran’s border, according to diplomatic sources. In a phone call, Javad Zar
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News from around the worldSun, 23 Feb 2020 23:06:00 +0100.

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News from around the worldSun, 23 Feb 2020 22:35:00 +0100.

Third death from coronavirus in Italy A third patient has died after testing positive to coronavirus in Italy as authorities there race to contain the biggest outbreak in Europe. -- Virus cases jump in S.Korea, Italy, Iran International con
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News from around the worldSun, 23 Feb 2020 22:03:00 +0100.

Third death from coronavirus in Italy A third patient has died after testing positive to coronavirus in Italy as authorities there race to contain the biggest outbreak in Europe. -- Virus cases jump in S.Korea, Italy, Iran International con
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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),