M 4.8 in Russian Federation on 04 Dec 2018 19:14 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 1164298
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 85.409 , 89.3079
Event Date: 04 Dec 2018 19:14 UTC
05 Dec 2018 01:14 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Dec 2018 19:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000i247 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),