M 4.5 in Russian Federation on 12 Aug 2018 22:41 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 1153464
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 47.9 Km
Lat/Lon: 48.1531 , 155.1155
Event Date: 12 Aug 2018 22:41 UTC
13 Aug 2018 08:41 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Aug 2018 23:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000g7gh Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 59 | About casualties: 49 | Last hour: 0

Poutine en Allemagne le 18 août pour une rencontre avec MerkelMon, 13 Aug 2018 15:29:00 +0200.

Le président russe Vladimir Poutine se rendra samedi en Allemagne pour une rencontre avec la chancelière Angela Merkel afin de parler des conflits en Syrie et en Ukraine, a annoncé lundi le gouvernement allemand. Le président russe Vladimi
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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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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),