M 4.5 in Russian Federation on 15 Oct 2017 06:33 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 1123892
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 64.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 49.3771 , 155.1946
Event Date: 15 Oct 2017 06:33 UTC
15 Oct 2017 16:33 Local
Exposed Population:
About 300 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Oct 2017 06:58 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000asfp Scaled population (vector) 2.03  
  C1 earthquake 0.74  
  C2 earthquake -0.13  
  Country Vulnerability -0.43  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 338 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

Ini Analisa BMKG Soal Gempa di Gorontalo yang Bikin Warga PanikThu, 19 Oct 2017 02:10:00 +0200.

Jakarta - Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi dan Geofisika (BMKG) memberikan penjelasan terkait gempa bumi berkekuatan 5,4 skala richter (SR) yang mengguncang wilayah Gorontalo dan Luwuk. Gempa sempat membuat warga berlarian ke luar rumah karen
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Fukushima sake served and savored at U.K. ParliamentThu, 19 Oct 2017 01:46:00 +0200.

LONDON – A reception was held on Tuesday night at London’s Palace of Westminster used for Britain’s Parliament to serve sake made in Fukushima Prefecture and show its recovery from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that hit the Tohoku r
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Scientists from four countries will start dropping highly sensitive de ... Thu, 19 Oct 2017 00:21:00 +0200.

Scientists from four countries will start dropping highly sensitive devices off the east coast of the North Island on Tuesday to measure movements in the Earth's crust. There will be 100 of the devices, known as seismometers, which will be
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U.S. looking to Japan for help in boosting LNG exports to AsiaThu, 19 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0200.

The U.S. is keen to work with Japan in expanding exports of U.S. liquefied natural gas in Asia, and hopes for more Japanese investment in American natural gas infrastructure, a senior Department of Energy official said Wednesday. Japan's tr
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),