M 4.7 in East Of Severnaya Zemlya, Russia on 16 Aug 2017 23:49 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 1119448
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 80.35 , 122.49
Event Date: 16 Aug 2017 23:49 UTC
17 Aug 2017 07:49 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Aug 2017 00:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000a8z7 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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Temblor de 5.3 grados se registró en IcaSun, 20 Aug 2017 20:49:00 +0200.

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Lives Aboard The U.S.S. Fitzgerald: Saved By Heroism, Lost By FailureSun, 20 Aug 2017 20:45:00 +0200.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),