M 5.9 in Russia on 18 Jun 2025 23:08 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 1486529
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 12.9 Km
Lat/Lon: 42.8591 , 146.492
Event Date: 18 Jun 2025 23:08 UTC
19 Jun 2025 09:08 Local
Exposed Population: 30 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 19 Jun 2025 00:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ql4i Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),