M 5.9 in Russia from 10 Aug 2018 18:12 UTC to 18:12

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1153272
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 15.82 Km
Lat/Lon: 48.47 , 154.7731
Event Date: 10 Aug 2018 18:12 UTC
11 Aug 2018 04:12 Local
Exposed Population: Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Aug 2018 18:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000g6hl Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 16 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

AP Top News at 10:01 a.m. EDTThu, 09 Aug 2018 16:20:00 +0200.

Israel launches scores of airstrikes as Gaza fire persists. Third strong earthquake shakes Lombok as death toll tops 300. Puerto Rico concedes Hurricane Maria deaths more than 1,400. Hazy Sacramento deals with smoky smell from distant blaze
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Instead of tax cuts, GOP candidates motivate with anxiety, and 9 more ... Thu, 09 Aug 2018 14:34:00 +0200.

New sanctions against Russia will be imposed later this month for illegally using a chemical weapon in an attempted assassination of a former spy and his daughter in Britain earlier this year, the United States said. Argentina's Senate on
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More than 300 dead from Indonesia earthquakeThu, 09 Aug 2018 13:51:00 +0200.

Beta is reporting, citing AP, that the country's security minister announced this on Thursday. The number was determined after several services met to resolve the issue of the exact number of victims. There has been another earthquake on Lo
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BREAKING NEWS: Indonesia hit by another earthquakeThu, 09 Aug 2018 10:42:00 +0200.

Indonesia has been hit by another strong earthquake which registered 5.9 on the Richter scale. The earthquake hit the island of Lombok, which is still trying to recover from the earthquake which hit last Sunday. Sunday’s earthquake took the
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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),