M 4.6 in Russia on 05 Sep 2018 17:12 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 1155877
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 58.7203 , 158.8201
Event Date: 05 Sep 2018 17:12 UTC
06 Sep 2018 04:12 Local
Exposed Population:
About 3000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Sep 2018 19:20 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000h8t2 Scaled population (vector) 3.22  
  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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Feature: Quake-hit Chinese youngsters find solace in "Russian home" 9/9/2018 10:18:00 AM.

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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),