M 5 in Russian Federation on 03 Apr 2017 12:53 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 1109281
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 14.81 Km
Lat/Lon: 56.2701 , 118.1628
Event Date: 03 Apr 2017 12:53 UTC
03 Apr 2017 21:53 Local
Exposed Population:
About 3000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Apr 2017 13:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008e2f Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 245 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

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Dragon Ball, la estrellaFri, 07 Apr 2017 10:49:00 +0200.

Dragon Ball es el tema del Tsunami número 31 que se realizará mañana y el domingo en el Centro de Convenciones Yucatán Siglo XXI , con un programa de actividades para que todos los integrantes de la familia disfruten de mucha diversión. El
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Changes to follow tsunami confusion in ChristchurchFri, 07 Apr 2017 09:36:00 +0200.

Coastal residents waiting for tsunami sirens after a local earthquake are putting themselves at "significant risk", a new report warns. The report was commissioned by the Christchurch City Council following criticism about the emergency res
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Communication breakdown behind tsunami confusionFri, 07 Apr 2017 08:59:00 +0200.

A report into how authorities handled the tsunami alert after the 14 November Kaikōura earthquake has revealed a communication breakdown between the Christchurch City Council and Civil Defence. After the 12.02am earthquake hit, the Ministr
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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),