M 5.9 in Russian Federation on 14 Aug 2016 11:15 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 1091844
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 50.4274 , 142.258
Event Date: 14 Aug 2016 11:15 UTC
14 Aug 2016 22:15 Local
Exposed Population: About 35000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Aug 2016 11:39 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006dr1 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: 403 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

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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),