M 4.6 in Kuril Islands on 16 Dec 2022 22:54 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 1350780
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 47.1158 , 152.7651
Event Date: 16 Dec 2022 22:54 UTC
17 Dec 2022 08:54 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people affected in MMI&>=II
Inserted at: 16 Dec 2022 23:35 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000j9v9 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.
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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), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),