M 5.5 in Russia on 22 Jul 2025 23:58 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 1491546
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 52.8829 , 160.7848
Event Date: 22 Jul 2025 23:58 UTC
23 Jul 2025 10:58 Local
Exposed Population: 250 thousand in MMI&>=III
Inserted at: 23 Jul 2025 03:08 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000qu9h Scaled population (raster) 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, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Just 14 minutes ago, a 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Kamchatka, Russia. The tremor was recorded late at night on Friday, July 25th, 2025, at 10:13 pm local time, at a shallow depth of 28. km below the surfa
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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),