M 5 in Russian Federation on 16 Jan 2017 19:07 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 1103375
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 198.42 Km
Lat/Lon: 55.5225 , 160.077
Event Date: 16 Jan 2017 19:07 UTC
17 Jan 2017 07:07 Local
Exposed Population:
About 5000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Jan 2017 19:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10007tjn Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),