M 4.8 in Russian Federation on 18 Aug 2017 06:20 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 1119518
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 55.5337 , 166.351
Event Date: 18 Aug 2017 06:20 UTC
18 Aug 2017 18:20 Local
Exposed Population:
About 600 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Aug 2017 06:34 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000a9ac Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 359 | About casualties: 24 | Last hour: 0

Battling century's worst drought, India's farmers revive traditional g ... Tue, 22 Aug 2017 03:59:00 +0200.

F or Nel Jayaraman, the realization that hybrid seeds, chemical fertilizers and pesticides were making farmers more vulnerable to extreme weather came slowly. In fields near the town of Thiruthuraipoondi in the southern state of Tamil Nadu,
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Battling century’s worst drought, India’s farmers revive traditional g ... Tue, 22 Aug 2017 03:58:00 +0200.

Farmers are reviving traditional seeds to protect their harvests and incomes from drought and other extreme weather events in Nagapattinam district, India. July 8, 2017. — Reuters pic THIRUTHURAIPOONDI (India), Aug 22 — For Nel Jayaraman, t
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Battling century's worst drought, India's farmers revive traditional g ... Tue, 22 Aug 2017 03:55:00 +0200.

THIRUTHURAIPOONDI, INDIA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - F or Nel Jayaraman, the realisation that hybrid seeds, chemical fertilisers and pesticides were making farmers more vulnerable to extreme weather came slowly. In fields near the town o
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'Face the Islamic tsunami'Mon, 21 Aug 2017 22:22:00 +0200.

Ex-Muslim TV this week held a conference to consolidate the worldwide movement of ex-Muslims that has grown and thrived in recent years. At the conference, a Jordanian ex-Muslim warns that a "tsunami" of Islam is headed to the Western world
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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),