Earthquake Impact Analysis for Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia, August 2025

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake occurred 36 km SSE of Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia, on August 01, 2025. The dataset, produced by the WFP's Automated Disaster Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) system, provides geospatial and socio-economic information on the event, which impacted 1723 people within a 50km radius. It was last updated on May 21, 2026.

Use Cases

• Map the earthquake's epicenter and affected area based on the provided latitude and longitude coordinates.
• Estimate population exposure for emergency resource allocation based on the reported impact on 1723 people.
• Analyze event characteristics for risk modeling based on the recorded magnitude and depth of 65.208 km.

Strengths

• Includes specific event parameters: magnitude 5.6, depth 65.208 km, and precise epicenter coordinates (50.3777, 156.3387).
• Quantifies human impact with a specific figure of 1723 people affected within 50km.
• Data is provided in standard geospatial formats (GEOJSON, CSV) for interoperability.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

WFP Automated Disaster Analysis & Mapping (ADAM)

Collection Method

Collected, analyzed, and mapped by an automated operational system following a sudden onset humanitarian emergency.

Time Range

August 01, 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-21 21:43:39.066614; freshness should be verified.

Geography

36 km SSE of Severo-Kuril'sk, Russian Federation