Overall Green Earthquake alert in Russia on 21 Aug 2025 11:21 UTC

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M 5.8 in Russia on 21 Aug 2025 11:21 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 1496839
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.8M
Depth:	27.9 Km
Lat/Lon:	51.9047 , 160.0448
Event Date:	21 Aug 2025 11:21 UTC 21 Aug 2025 22:21 Local
Exposed Population:	250 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at:	21 Aug 2025 11:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000r2s3	Scaled population (raster)	0
	C1 shakemap	0
	C2 shakemap	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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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),

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