Russian Federation Earthquake on Aug 15 2025: Impact and Epicenter

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake occurred 107km east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on August 15, 2025. The dataset, produced by the World Food Programme's Automated Disaster Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) system, provides the epicenter coordinates and indicates 183 people were impacted within a 50km radius.

Use Cases

• Map the earthquake's epicenter and impact zone based on the provided latitude and longitude coordinates.
• Assess potential humanitarian needs based on the reported number of impacted people.
• Model seismic risk and event characteristics using the provided magnitude and depth.
• Integrate event data into larger disaster analysis and mapping workflows as described for the ADAM system.

Strengths

• Provides specific event details: magnitude 5.7, depth of 69.344 km, and precise epicenter coordinates.
• Includes a concrete impact metric: 183 people affected within a 50km radius.
• Sourced from an operational humanitarian analysis system (WFP ADAM).

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

WFP Automated Disaster Analysis & Mapping

Collection Method

Collected, analyzed, and mapped by the Automated Disaster Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) system following a sudden onset emergency.

Time Range

August 15, 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-21 21:43:28.660106; freshness should be verified.

Geography

107km east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russian Federation