M 6.4 in Russian Federation on 15 Sep 2020 03:41 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 1235451
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.4M
Depth: 329.73 Km
Lat/Lon: 55.9569 , 158.4936
Event Date: 15 Sep 2020 03:41 UTC
15 Sep 2020 15:41 Local
Exposed Population:
About 10000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Sep 2020 03:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bnd1 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 14 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

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6.2-magnitude earthquake hits Russian KamchatkaTue, 15 Sep 2020 19:51:00 +0200.

An earthquake of 6.2 magnitude struck Russia's Kamchatka peninsula in the far east. According to the United States Geological Survey, the epicentre of the quake was situated at a depth of 329.7 km. At the moment, there is no official inform
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Un terremoto de magnitud 6,4 sacude la penísula rusa de KamchatkaTue, 15 Sep 2020 09:15:00 +0200.

(Actualiza con información sobre las consecuencias del seísmo) Moscú, 15 sep (EFE).- Un terremoto de magnitud 6,4 en la escala de Ritcher sacudió hoy la península rusa de Kamchatka, bañada por el Pacífico Norte, informó el Servicio Geológic
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Powerful 6.2-magnitude earthquake hits Russian KamchatkaTue, 15 Sep 2020 07:48:00 +0200.

The peninsula is located in a seismically active zone of the Pacific, known as the Ring of Fire and regularly suffers from powerful earthquakes. An earthquake of 6.2 magnitude struck Russia's Kamchatka peninsula, according to the German Res
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),