M 5 in Russian Federation on 18 Jan 2017 11:18 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 1103484
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 62.03 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.3369 , -179.5202
Event Date: 18 Jan 2017 11:18 UTC
17 Jan 2017 23:18 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Jan 2017 12:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007twz Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Fort séisme de magnitude 7,9 en Papouasie-Nouvelle-GuinéeSun, 22 Jan 2017 11:09:00 +0100.

Le Centre d'alerte au tsunami dans le Pacifique a prévenu que des vagues dangereuses étaient susceptibles de frapper certaines régions côtières, avant de lever son alerte. Un séisme de magnitude 7,9 a frappé ce dimanche la , dans le Pacifiq
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Powerful quake strikes off Papua New Guinea, tsunami alert wound backSun, 22 Jan 2017 11:06:00 +0100.

SYDNEY: A 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck off Papua New Guinea (PNG) on Sunday, but there were no reports of casualties or damage after a potential tsunami did not occur. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) downgraded the quake from
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),