M 6 in Russia on 27 Aug 2025 03:49 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 1497701
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 53.4 Km
Lat/Lon: 50.8236 , 157.4965
Event Date: 27 Aug 2025 03:49 UTC
27 Aug 2025 13:49 Local
Exposed Population: 4 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 27 Aug 2025 04:08 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000qr8h Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 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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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),