M 6.3 in Russian Federation on 10 Oct 2018 23:16 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 1158783
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 17.46 Km
Lat/Lon: 49.319 , 156.1956
Event Date: 10 Oct 2018 23:16 UTC
11 Oct 2018 09:16 Local
Exposed Population: About 200 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Oct 2018 23:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us1000hacw Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.94      
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 58 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

Russian Kurile islands hit with 6.7 magnitute earthquakeSat, 13 Oct 2018 13:56:00 +0200.

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Registrado un terremoto de magnitud 6,7 frente a las islas KurilesThu, 11 Oct 2018 08:07:00 +0200.

MADRID, 11 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) - Un terremoto de magnitud 6,7 en la escala Richter ha sacudido este jueves las costas de las islas Kuriles, según ha informado a la agencia de noticias Sputnik el Servicio Geofísico de la Academia de Ciencias
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Registrado un terremoto de magnitud 6,7 frente a las islas KurilesThu, 11 Oct 2018 07:05:00 +0200.

Un terremoto de magnitud 6,7 en la escala Richter ha sacudido este jueves las costas de las islas Kuriles, según ha informado a la agencia de noticias Sputnik el Servicio Geofísico de la Academia de Ciencias de Rusia. «Un terremoto de magni
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6.3 earthquake hits off Kuril islands in Russian Far EastThu, 11 Oct 2018 04:22:00 +0200.

A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake has struck in the sea south of the Kuril islands in the Russian Far East, US Geological Survey (USGS) data shows. Earlier estimates placed the magnitude higher, at 6.5. The quake occurred at a shallow de
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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 (91), (5), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),