M 4.7 in Russia on 15 Jul 2026 03:36 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 1551944
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 49.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.7994 , 159.5055
Event Date: 15 Jul 2026 03:36 UTC
15 Jul 2026 14:36 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people affected in MMI>=II
Inserted at: 15 Jul 2026 04:25 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000t0ke Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Decline in journo-murders during first half of 2026 7/16/2026 10:02:00 PM.

Nava Thakuria. Geneva, 16 July 2026: A marked improvement was observed during the first six months of 2026, with 39 journalists killed compared to 85 during the same period in 2025 — a reduction of more than half the number of victims (- 54
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Venezuela’s acting president expresses gratitude for Russia’s solidari.. 7/15/2026 9:00:00 AM.

CARACAS, July 15. /TASS/. Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodriguez highly commended Russia’s solidarity and humanitarian aid to Venezuela following the devastating earthquake, Russian Ambassador to Caracas Sergey Melik-Bagdasarov told a
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Venezuela''s acting president thanks Russia for humanitarian assistanc.. 7/15/2026 4:38:00 AM.

CARACAS, July 15. /TASS/. Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodriguez has thanked Russia for providing assistance after a devastating earthquake. "I would like to personally thank Russia, other countries, and their ambassadors for offering
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),