M 5.6 in Russia on 15 Dec 2025 19:33 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 1515257
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 34 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.7399 , 161.2395
Event Date: 15 Dec 2025 19:33 UTC
16 Dec 2025 06:33 Local
Exposed Population: 180 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 15 Dec 2025 20:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000rv1u Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

6.5-magnitude quake hits off east coast of Russia''s Kamchatka 12/18/2025 2:35:00 PM.

MOSCOW, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- A 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Russia''s Kamchatka Peninsula on Thursday, according to the local geophysical service. The quake occurred at 1237 GMT, with its epicenter located about 9
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1st LD Writethru: 6.5-magnitude quake hits off east coast of Russia''s.. 12/18/2025 2:35:00 PM.

MOSCOW, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- A 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Russia''s Kamchatka Peninsula on Thursday, according to the local geophysical service.
1st LD Writethru: 6.5-magnitude quake hits off east coast of Russia''s.. 12/18/2025 2:28:00 PM.

MOSCOW, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- A 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Russia''s Kamchatka Peninsula on Thursday, according to the local geophysical service. The quake occurred at 1237 GMT, with its epicenter located about 9
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Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:37 Magnitude 5.9 earthquake in Petropavlovsk-Kamch.. 12/18/2025 2:26:00 PM.

1580 km ENE of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia / pop: 275,000 / local time: 22:37:20.3 2025-12-18 75 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia / pop: 187,000 / local time: 00:37:20.3 2025-12-19.

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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),