M 4.9 in Russian Federation on 29 Dec 2020 00:31 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 1249432
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 56.1957 , 114.0779
Event Date: 29 Dec 2020 00:31 UTC
29 Dec 2020 08:31 Local
Exposed Population:
About 13000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Dec 2020 01:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000d3uf Scaled population (vector) 4.24  
  C1 earthquake 0.74  
  C2 earthquake -0.13  
  Country Vulnerability -0.43  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 19 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Greece Delivers Aid to Quake-Struck CroatiaThu, 31 Dec 2020 14:19:00 +0100.

Credit: AMNA. Greece delivered humanitarian aid to Croatia on Wednesday in response to the country’s request for assistance after Tuesday’s destructive earthquake , which caused extensive damage and claimed seven lives. The aid included ten
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Greece Delivers Aid to Quake-Struck CroatiaThu, 31 Dec 2020 14:12:00 +0100.

Credit: AMNA. Greece delivered humanitarian aid to Croatia on Wednesday in response to the country’s request for assistance after Tuesday’s destructive earthquake, which caused extensive damage and claimed seven lives. The aid included tent
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Croatia earthquake: Strong aftershocks hit after quake kills sevenWed, 30 Dec 2020 12:23:00 +0100.

The new 4.8 and 4.7 magnitude tremors cause further damage after seven people died on Tuesday.
Not Climate Change, Great Earthquakes in Aleutian Arc Maybe behind Arc ... Mon, 28 Dec 2020 12:19:00 +0100.

The common notion is that climate change and global warming are responsible for melting ice in the Arctic region. Scientists say that due to the planet's rising temperature, thanks to greenhouse gasses, the Arctic is on a melting spree and
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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),