M 7.3 in Russian Federation on 20 Dec 2018 17:01 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 1165798
Earthquake Magnitude: 7.3M
Depth: 16.56 Km
Lat/Lon: 55.0999 , 164.6993
Event Date: 20 Dec 2018 17:01 UTC
21 Dec 2018 04:01 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI VII
About 600 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Dec 2018 22:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.5 0.5
us2000ivfw Scaled population (vector) -0.05 Max wave alert 0.57m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0.57m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.94      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 191 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

Baba Vanga who predicted 9/11 and Brexit makes 2019 predictions - and ... Mon, 24 Dec 2018 14:35:00 +0100.

The Bulgarian peasant, who correctly predicted that the 44th president of the US would be African-American, has predicted an European Economic collapse, a tsunami will wipe out parts of Asia and Russia will be hit by a giant meteorite. And
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MIL-OSI Europe: Dmitry Medvedev expresses condolences to President of ... Sun, 23 Dec 2018 18:05:00 +0100.

Source: Russian Federation Government. The message reads, in part: “On behalf of the Government of the Russian Federation and me personally, let me express my heartfelt condolences over the numerous deaths caused by the violent tsunami that
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Medvedev offers condolences to Indonesian president over human deaths ... Sun, 23 Dec 2018 17:50:00 +0100.

MOSCOW, December 23. /TASS/. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has offered his condolences to Indonesian President Joko Widodo over numerous human deaths caused by a devastating tsunami, the press service of the Russian government said
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Dmitry Medvedev expresses condolences to President of Indonesia Joko W ... Sun, 23 Dec 2018 17:20:00 +0100.

. (AGENPARL) – Mosca, dom 23 dicembre 2018 The message reads, in part:“On behalf of the Government of the Russian Federation and me personally, let me express my heartfelt condolences over the numerous deaths caused by the violent tsunami
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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 (91), (5), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),