M 6.4 in Russian Federation on 20 Mar 2016 22:50 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 1082876
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.4M
Depth: 31.31 Km
Lat/Lon: 54.3325 , 162.7988
Event Date: 20 Mar 2016 22:50 UTC
21 Mar 2016 09:50 Local
Exposed Population: About 200 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Mar 2016 00:00 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  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 179 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

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St. Lawrence Primary Evacuation Drill A SuccessThu, 24 Mar 2016 22:09:00 +0100.

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Nation Belgians Pause to Remember Attack Victims Belgians Pause to Rem ... Thu, 24 Mar 2016 19:45:00 +0100.

Belgians Pause to Remember Attack Victims. While remembering the dead and wounded, Belgian authorities find a direct connection between the Brussels bombings that killed 31 people and last year's attacks on Paris, which appear to have been
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),