M 5.5 in Russian Federation on 21 Dec 2018 18:19 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 1165930
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 21.79 Km
Lat/Lon: 55.2562 , 164.4636
Event Date: 21 Dec 2018 18:19 UTC
22 Dec 2018 05:19 Local
Exposed Population: About 400 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Dec 2018 15:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000iw0e Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),