M 4.5 in Russian Federation on 17 Jan 2018 18:58 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 1131179
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 60.01 Km
Lat/Lon: 53.3899 , 160.5921
Event Date: 17 Jan 2018 18:58 UTC
18 Jan 2018 05:58 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Jan 2018 21:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000ckf4 Scaled population (vector) 2.71  
  C1 earthquake 0.74  
  C2 earthquake -0.13  
  Country Vulnerability -0.43  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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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.
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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),