M 5 in Russian Federation on 11 Dec 2018 00:26 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 1164960
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 111.58 Km
Lat/Lon: 43.7938 , 146.231
Event Date: 11 Dec 2018 00:26 UTC
11 Dec 2018 10:26 Local
Exposed Population:
About 58000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Dec 2018 00:51 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
us2000isb3 Scaled population (vector) 4.48  
  C1 earthquake 0.74  
  C2 earthquake -0.13  
  Country Vulnerability -0.43  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 72 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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It's now beyond official: Greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, pose a danger to public health and welfare, according to an exhaustive review that looked at 275 scientific studies published over the past nine years. Researchers did the
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Gigantic fireball exploded over US Airbase which such force it caused ... Thu, 13 Dec 2018 16:40:00 +0100.

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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),