M 5.9 in Russian Federation on 08 May 2017 15:47 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 1112433
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 22.75 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.153 , -177.0788
Event Date: 08 May 2017 15:47 UTC
08 May 2017 03:47 Local
Exposed Population: About 100 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 May 2017 16:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008qh7 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 400 | About casualties: 8 | 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),