M 5.3 in Russia on 27 Nov 2020 18:45 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 1245338
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 44.45 Km
Lat/Lon: 49.9925 , 156.3446
Event Date: 27 Nov 2020 18:45 UTC
28 Nov 2020 04:45 Local
Exposed Population:
About 2000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Nov 2020 19:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ckgb Scaled population (vector) 2.89  
  C1 earthquake 0.74  
  C2 earthquake -0.13  
  Country Vulnerability -0.43  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),