M 5.9 in Russia on 08 Dec 2013 17:24 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 1019631
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 25.48 Km
Lat/Lon: 44.51 , 149.07
Event Date: 08 Dec 2013 17:24 UTC
09 Dec 2013 03:24 Local
Exposed Population:
About 251 people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Dec 2013 07:59 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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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 (40), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),