M 5.6 in Russian Federation on 15 Oct 2018 01:32 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 1159072
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 123.78 Km
Lat/Lon: 54.0649 , 159.4607
Event Date: 15 Oct 2018 01:32 UTC
15 Oct 2018 13:32 Local
Exposed Population: About 7000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Oct 2018 01:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000hc6k Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 35 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

Fabien GoubetTue, 16 Oct 2018 20:10:00 +0200.

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Un séisme de magnitude 4,5 secoue la...Tue, 16 Oct 2018 13:46:00 +0200.

Un séisme de magnitude 4,5 sur l'échelle de Richter a été enregistré dans la mer du Japon au large de la région de Primorye, a déclaré le représentant du centre régional russe de traitement de l’information du service d’alerte aux tsunamis
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Russian Kurile islands hit with 6.7 magnitute earthquakeSat, 13 Oct 2018 13:56:00 +0200.

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Registrado un terremoto de magnitud 6,7 frente a las islas KurilesThu, 11 Oct 2018 08:07:00 +0200.

MADRID, 11 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) - Un terremoto de magnitud 6,7 en la escala Richter ha sacudido este jueves las costas de las islas Kuriles, según ha informado a la agencia de noticias Sputnik el Servicio Geofísico de la Academia de Ciencias
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),