M 5.7 in Russia on 26 Feb 2026 04:59 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 1526307
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.5562 , 159.6915
Event Date: 26 Feb 2026 04:59 UTC
26 Feb 2026 15:59 Local
Exposed Population: 240 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 26 Feb 2026 05:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000s0dq 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, 2026. 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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),