M 5.5 in Russia on 21 Sep 2020 18:04 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 1236250
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.8548 , 103.4493
Event Date: 21 Sep 2020 18:04 UTC
22 Sep 2020 02:04 Local
Exposed Population: About 1000 people in MMI
1070000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Sep 2020 18:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000bzek Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Magnitude 5.9 quake strikes off Russian Siberian region of Irkutsk MOS ... Mon, 21 Sep 2020 22:42:00 +0200.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 struck in Russia's Siberian region of Irkutsk at 0205 local time on Tuesday (1805 GMT on Monday), Russia's local emergency service said. The epicentre of the quake was some 74 km (46
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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),