M 5 in Russian Federation on 09 Aug 2018 14:14 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 1153150
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 48.46 Km
Lat/Lon: 43.1176 , 146.9752
Event Date: 09 Aug 2018 14:14 UTC
10 Aug 2018 00:14 Local
Exposed Population:
About 2000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Aug 2018 14:32 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Russia= 4.6; Japan= 1.5

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000g5s0 Scaled population (vector) 2.48  
  C1 earthquake 0.74  
  C2 earthquake -0.13  
  Country Vulnerability -0.43  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 60 | About casualties: 49 | Last hour: 0

More than 300 dead from Indonesia earthquakeThu, 09 Aug 2018 13:51:00 +0200.

Beta is reporting, citing AP, that the country's security minister announced this on Thursday. The number was determined after several services met to resolve the issue of the exact number of victims. There has been another earthquake on Lo
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BREAKING NEWS: Indonesia hit by another earthquakeThu, 09 Aug 2018 10:42:00 +0200.

Indonesia has been hit by another strong earthquake which registered 5.9 on the Richter scale. The earthquake hit the island of Lombok, which is still trying to recover from the earthquake which hit last Sunday. Sunday’s earthquake took the
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Europe gets a scorching preview of how climate change will affect the ... Sun, 05 Aug 2018 02:51:00 +0200.

In London, stores are running out of fans and air conditioners. In Greenland, an iceberg may break off a piece so large it could trigger a tsunami that destroys settlements on shore. Last week, Sweden’s highest peak, Kebnekaise mountain, no
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Russia shows off video of doomsday torpedo which could create 300ft ra ... Mon, 30 Jul 2018 13:15:00 +0200.

Russia is now testing a terrifying ‘doomsday torpedo’ which could swamp coastal areas in a radioactive tsunami up to 300 feet high. The Poseidon system was initially thought to be a hoax – but the huge 65ft missile has just been shown off i
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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),