M 4.5 in Russian Federation on 28 Feb 2021 14:05 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 1257891
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 79.88 Km
Lat/Lon: 47.3548 , 153.0368
Event Date: 28 Feb 2021 14:05 UTC
01 Mar 2021 01:05 Local
Exposed Population:
About 100 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Feb 2021 15:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000decw Scaled population (vector) 1.7  
  C1 earthquake 0.74  
  C2 earthquake -0.13  
  Country Vulnerability -0.43  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),