M 6 in Russian Federation on 20 Sep 2022 18:23 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 1338590
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 55.532 , 166.3394
Event Date: 20 Sep 2022 18:23 UTC
21 Sep 2022 06:23 Local
Exposed Population: Less than 100 people in MMI VI
Few people affected in MMI&>=IV
Inserted at: 20 Sep 2022 18:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000i9l5 Scaled population (raster) 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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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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

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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),