M 4.6 in Russian Federation on 21 Jan 2021 10:09 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 1252523
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 66.1 Km
Lat/Lon: 48.2017 , 154.1748
Event Date: 21 Jan 2021 10:09 UTC
21 Jan 2021 20:09 Local
Exposed Population:
About 100 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Jan 2021 11:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000d1zu Scaled population (vector) 1.72  
  C1 earthquake 0.74  
  C2 earthquake -0.13  
  Country Vulnerability -0.43  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 22 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Russian polar explorers not affected by earthquake in the AntarcticSun, 24 Jan 2021 05:38:00 +0100.

The European Mediterranean Seismological Center reported earlier that the earthquake with the magnitude of 7.0 was reported in the area of South Shetland Islands. BUENOS AIRES, January 24. /TASS/. Russian explorers working at the Bellingsh
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Magnitude 5.4 earthquake strikes off Kamchatka’s coastSun, 17 Jan 2021 14:10:00 +0100.

MOSCOW, January 17. /TASS/. A 5.4 magnitude earthquake was recorded on Sunday off the coast of Kamchatka in Russia’s Far East, the US Geological Survey reported. The epicenter was located 241 km northeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky at the
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Kazakhstan registers magnitude 6.0 earthquake in AfghanistanSun, 17 Jan 2021 05:59:00 +0100.

NUR-SULTAN, January 17. /TASS/. A magnitude 6.0 earthquake was registered in Afghanistan by the Kazakhstan seismic stations network at 02:02 local time, seismological expedition of the Ministry of Education and Science of Kazakhstan reporte
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Seven people dead, 600 people injured in Indonesia earthquakeFri, 15 Jan 2021 06:24:00 +0100.

MOSCOW, January 15. /TASS/. At least seven people were killed, 600 were injured in a series of earthquakes with a magnitude of 5.7 and 6.2, which was recorded in Indonesia and might be followed by powerful aftershocks, Detiknews reported wi
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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),