M 7.5 in Russian Federation on 25 Mar 2020 02:49 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 1211351
Earthquake Magnitude: 7.5M
Depth: 56.65 Km
Lat/Lon: 48.9864 , 157.6933
Event Date: 25 Mar 2020 02:49 UTC
25 Mar 2020 13:49 Local
Exposed Population: About 2000 people in MMI
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Mar 2020 02:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.8 0.8
us70008fi4 Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0.83m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0.83m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
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Latest media headlines

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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 (91), (5), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),