M 4.8 in Russian Federation on 18 Feb 2016 09:55 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 1080857
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 70.31 Km
Lat/Lon: 48.9438 , 154.8815
Event Date: 18 Feb 2016 09:55 UTC
18 Feb 2016 19:55 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Feb 2016 10:33 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 366 | About casualties: 20 | Last hour: 0

Fuite-La relance d'un réacteur japonais pourrait être reportéeMon, 22 Feb 2016 08:42:00 +0100.

TOKYO, 22 février (Reuters) - La compagnie japonaise Kansai Electric Power a déclaré lundi qu'elle pourrait retarder la remise en service du réacteur n°4 de la centrale de Takahama, prévue normalement fin février, à la suite d'une fuite d'e
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Avec la hausse croissante du nombre de décès d’enfants en mer, l’OIM e ... Mon, 22 Feb 2016 08:05:00 +0100.

Suisse - En moyenne, depuis septembre 2015, deux enfants se noient chaque jour alors que leurs familles tentent de traverser la Méditerranée orientale, et le nombre de décès infantiles ne cesse de croître, d’après l’OIM, le HCR et l’UNICEF.
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El santoral afroecuatoriano cuenta su historiaMon, 22 Feb 2016 07:03:00 +0100.

Los fenómenos naturales y la religión. Esta condición permitiría no solo la apropiación de diversas fiestas religiosas dentro de las prácticas de los antiguos esclavos, sino que también posibilitaría incorporar eventos y fenómenos que, para
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Kansai Electric finds leaked radioactive water at nuclear plantMon, 22 Feb 2016 06:54:00 +0100.

Tokyo: Japanese utility Kansai Electric Power found a pool of contaminated water at a nuclear reactor slated to restart next week. The company had previously scheduled a final test of the Takahama No.4 reactor before restarting it on Sunday
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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),