M 4.5 in Russian Federation on 17 Sep 2018 04:53 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 1156855
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 156.25 Km
Lat/Lon: 47.1369 , 151.0366
Event Date: 17 Sep 2018 04:53 UTC
17 Sep 2018 14:53 Local
Exposed Population:
About 100 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Sep 2018 05:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000hfps Scaled population (vector) 1.41  
  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: 39 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

MIL-OSI Translation: Roskosmos. Information about the conducted space ... Tue, 18 Sep 2018 09:21:00 +0200.

MIL OSI Translation. Region: Russia – Source: Russia Federal Space. Roskosmos. Information on the conducted space imagery 18.09.2018 08: 50In August 2018, the State Corporation “Roskosmos” carried out a space survey of the territories of th
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Dramatic rescues: 3 daring operations by Russian emergency workersFri, 14 Sep 2018 05:32:00 +0200.

Search and rescue operations in Neftegorsk after the earthquake. Igor Mikhalev/Sputnik The Emergency Situations Ministry, which was created in the early 1990s, faces some of the toughest challenges. Tackling them requires exceptional courag
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Xi, Putin Call for Promoting China-Russia Youth FriendshipFri, 14 Sep 2018 04:28:00 +0200.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin pose for photos with youths from China and Russia and faculty representatives as they visit the All-Russian Children's Center "Ocean" in Vladivostok, Russia, on September 12,
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Un centre russe d’accueil pour enfants témoigne de l’amitié sino-russeThu, 13 Sep 2018 11:09:00 +0200.

21 juillet 2008 : deux jeunes Chinoises avec leur professeur d’artisanat au Centre d’accueil panrusse « Océan » pour enfants, à Vladivostok en Russie. Il y a dix ans, la Russie invitait un premier groupe de 398 enfants chinois traumatisés p
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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),