M 4.6 in Russia on 27 Dec 2018 10:15 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 1166416
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 55.2789 , 164.3564
Event Date: 27 Dec 2018 10:15 UTC
27 Dec 2018 21:15 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Dec 2018 10:32 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000iy1u Scaled population (vector) -0.52  
  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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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),