M 4.5 in Kazakhstan on 27 Dec 2015 18:39 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 1077187
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 15.46 Km
Lat/Lon: 48.4587 , 83.9695
Event Date: 27 Dec 2015 18:39 UTC
28 Dec 2015 00:39 Local
Exposed Population:
About 83043 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Dec 2015 20:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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

Articles: 239 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

Acusan abandono del fuerte Lambert de Coquimbo y piden su revitalizaci ... Thu, 31 Dec 2015 17:44:00 +0100.

Coquimbo es el fuerte Lambert , pero lamentablemente sus instalaciones no se encuentran en óptimas condiciones y carece de servicios para los visitantes. Esto fue advertido por los propios turistas que llegan al lugar, quienes coinciden en
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Image of Asia: Enjoying ice birthday cake and a stretchThu, 31 Dec 2015 15:55:00 +0100.

In this photo by Joshua Paul, 11-year-old Sumatran orangutan Tsunami hangs on a tree branch while eating her ice birthday cake at Malaysia's National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur, where she also sampled a fruit platter. The species native to Sumatra
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Attacker forces Georgia woman to make a phone call during her rape — s ... Thu, 31 Dec 2015 15:14:00 +0100.

Being prepared will be the key to survival. The tectonic plates off the west coast are squeezing each other with tremendous force. When they break - which is a certainty - they will release a tremendous amount of force resulting in a massiv
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Ecologie : le best of de l'année 2015Thu, 31 Dec 2015 15:13:00 +0100.

Janvier Alimentation. Contenants en plastiques, boites de conserves, cannettes...Tous étaient susceptibles de contenir du bisphénol A, considéré comme un perturbateur endocrinien. Depuis le 1er janvier, cette substance dangereuse est interd
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),