M 4.6 in Russia on 15 Feb 2019 23:21 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 1170919
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 66.24 Km
Lat/Lon: 53.9876 , 160.1438
Event Date: 15 Feb 2019 23:21 UTC
16 Feb 2019 11:21 Local
Exposed Population:
About 2000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Feb 2019 00:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000jimp Scaled population (vector) 3.52  
  C1 earthquake 0.74  
  C2 earthquake -0.13  
  Country Vulnerability -0.43  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 16 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Haiti’s explosive Rite of Spring: from pagan Russia to vodou ritualMon, 18 Feb 2019 02:20:00 +0100.

Saintus draws on the rituals of vodou in his first UK commission, for Leeds-based Phoenix Dance Theatre . His Rite of Spring will be performed in a double bill with Opera North , accompanied by their orchestra. Saintus was tentative at firs
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Continue reading Trade unions can help with critical worker shortages ... Sun, 17 Feb 2019 09:15:00 +0100.

We are in the middle of a great shale revolution. For the first time in decades, the U.S. is holding its own against OPEC and Russia, going from energy importer to energy exporter. Unlocking previously inaccessible shale reservoirs deep und
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RUSSIA WARNING: Putin's deadly NUCLEAR TORPEDO able to create POISONOU ... Sat, 16 Feb 2019 11:12:00 +0100.

Nicknamed ‘Poseidon’, the unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) can deliver a thermonuclear cobalt bomb of up to 200 megatons, according to Russian state media. Detonation of such a bomb could be enough to create a tsunami wave 500 metres tall
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Haiti's explosive Rite of Spring: from pagan Russia to vodou ritualFri, 15 Feb 2019 01:24:00 +0100.

Full-bodied choreography … Natalie Alleston rehearsing The Rite of Spring. Photograph: Jack Thomson. In Saintus’s Rite, the loa appear: Damballa, the serpent and creator of life, Ogoun, the warrior and Marassa, the divine twins. I watch the
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),