M 5.5 in Russian Federation on 04 Apr 2017 22:08 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 1109415
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 12.86 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.269 , -176.4404
Event Date: 04 Apr 2017 22:08 UTC
04 Apr 2017 10:08 Local
Exposed Population: About 100 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Apr 2017 22:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008ef7 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 351 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

As experts make sense of quakes, Batangas townsfolk wrestles with fear ... Sat, 08 Apr 2017 21:54:00 +0200.

Multiple earthquakes shook up southern Luzon on Saturday afternoon, causing visible damage to various infrastructure and people to seek safer ground. The first tremor, a magnitude-5.6, was felt at 3:07 p.m. with the epicenter near Mabini t
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Officials cracking down on poaching of a slippery, squiggly and valuab ... Sat, 08 Apr 2017 21:25:00 +0200.

A massive, years-long undercover operation has led to arrests and guilty pleas up and down the East Coast of poachers and traffickers who dealt in a slippery, squiggly and valuable commodity: baby eels. William Sheldon, who runs one of the
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Set of three quakes strike Philippines, dozens evacuated from coastal ... Sat, 08 Apr 2017 21:23:00 +0200.

No immediate reports of casualties from the quakes, but buildings were damaged; Hundreds fled to higher ground from the coastal areas south of Manila fearing a tsunami; Series of earthquakes struck the main Philippine island of Luzon. MANIL
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Hundreds Flee After Three Strong Quakes Strike PhilippinesSat, 08 Apr 2017 21:18:00 +0200.

Manila, Apr 8 (Prensa Latina) Hundreds of residents of coastal areas in a province south of the Philippine capital fled to higher ground fearing a tsunami on Saturday after a series of earthquakes on the main island of Luzon. Three quakes
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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),