M 5.5 in Russian Federation on 22 Dec 2018 13:29 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 1165994
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 55.1996 , 164.6196
Event Date: 22 Dec 2018 13:29 UTC
23 Dec 2018 00:29 Local
Exposed Population: About 600 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Dec 2018 17:29 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000iwa7 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 123 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

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RUSSIA has begun testing an "unstoppable" underwater drone that experts fear could trigger a 300ft radioactive tsunami with a massive nuclear blast in the sea. The unmanned Poseidon submarine - designed to wipe out enemy naval bases - is du
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The World in 2018 MONTSAME National News Agency names top 10 events ha ... Wed, 26 Dec 2018 10:19:00 +0100.

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ MONTSAME National News Agency names top 10 events happened in the world throughout the year of 2018. 1. 2018 United States- North Korea summit The summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean Supreme Le
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20 hurt in Germany as horse carriages collide on ChristmasWed, 26 Dec 2018 08:16:00 +0100.

The dpa news agency quoted police in southern Bavaria as saying the two carriages, each with 10 passengers, were approaching a rail crossing single file when the first carriage halted. The second 20:03 Russian PM expands targeted sanctions
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BOJ's Kuroda blames stock rout on heightening global uncertaintyWed, 26 Dec 2018 07:45:00 +0100.

Conceding that it was taking longer than expected to achieve his 2 percent inflation target, Kuroda said policy makers needed to be vigilant to heightening external risks such as protectionism and 20:03 Russian PM expands targeted sanction
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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),