M 4.5 in Russian Federation on 11 May 2024 03:37 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 1428267
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 78.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 52.6077 , 158.9261
Event Date: 11 May 2024 03:37 UTC
11 May 2024 15:37 Local
Exposed Population:
260 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 11 May 2024 04:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mxwx Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 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 (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),