Russia

RUS · 2024 energy mix · renewables 5.9% · fossil fuels 88.2%

Threat reading 61 of 100, classified HIGH THREAT, HOLDING. 158 events recorded here in the last seven days, 158 in the last thirty.

That number is computed from live feeds and moves. The live monitor is where to read it as of right now.

Where its energy comes from

Gas	53.0%
Oil	23.6%
Coal	11.6%
Nuclear	5.8%
Hydro	5.7%
Wind	0.1%
Solar	0.1%

In 2024, renewables accounted for 5.9% and fossil fuels for 88.2%. On electricity traded with its neighbours, Russia is close to balanced on electricity trade.

Sources under one per cent of the mix are left out of the table rather than listed as a row of zeroes. Percentages are shares of a country's primary energy, not of the power it generates.

Recorded history

NOAA's hazard records hold 171 significant earthquakes, 88 tsunamis and 22 significant eruptions in or just off Russia since 103.

The deadliest was the 4 November 1952 magnitude 9.0 earthquake (Russia: Kamchatka Peninsula), which killed 10,000 people.

The most recent entry is the 18 September 2025 magnitude 7.8 earthquake (Russia: Kamchatka Peninsula).

Across the entries that record a death toll, 12,691 people died.

Date	What	Where	Toll
4 November 1952	tsunami (waves to 23 m)	Kamchatka	10,000 dead, $1 million damage
4 November 1952	magnitude 9.0 earthquake	Russia: Kamchatka Peninsula	10,000 dead, $1 million damage
27 May 1995	magnitude 7.1 earthquake	Russia: Sakhalin Is: Neftegorsk, Okha, Moskalvo	1,989 dead, $300 million damage
27 May 1995	tsunami (waves to 0.1 m)	Sakhalin Island	1,989 dead, $300 million damage
9 March 1830	earthquake	Russia	410 dead, damage $1 to 5 million
16 October 1737	tsunami (waves to 15.2 m)	Kamchatka	100 dead, damage under $1 million
16 October 1737	earthquake	Russia: Kamchatka	100 dead
9 March 1830	magnitude 6.3 earthquake	Russia: Dagestan	40 dead, damage $1 to 5 million
14 May 1970	magnitude 6.7 earthquake	Russia: Dagestan	31 dead, damage $5 to 25 million
14 May 1970	tsunami	Caspian Sea	31 dead, damage $1 to 5 million
7 September 1918	magnitude 8.3 earthquake	Russia: Kuril Islands	23 dead, damage $1 to 5 million
7 September 1918	tsunami (waves to 12 m)	S. Kuril Islands	23 dead, damage $1 to 5 million
13 April 1923	tsunami (waves to 20 m)	Kamchatka	18 dead, damage $5 to 25 million
13 April 1923	magnitude 7.2 earthquake	Russia: near Kamchatka	18 dead, damage $5 to 25 million
1778	VEI 4 eruption	Raikoke, Kuril Is	15 dead
11 October 2008	magnitude 5.7 earthquake	Russia: Caucasus: Chechnya	13 dead, damage $5 to 25 million
29 June 1780	magnitude 7.5 earthquake	Russia: Kuril Islands	12 dead, damage under $1 million
29 June 1780	tsunami (waves to 12 m)	S. Kuril Islands	12 dead, damage under $1 million
4 October 1994	magnitude 8.3 earthquake	Russia: Kuril Islands; Japan: Hokkaido	11 dead, damage $5 to 25 million
4 October 1994	tsunami (waves to 10.4 m)	S. Kuril Islands	11 dead, 2 homes destroyed, damage $5 to 25 million
11 September 1927	magnitude 6.8 earthquake	Ukraine: Crimea: Sebastopol	11 dead, damage over $25 million
11 September 1927	tsunami (waves to 1 m)	Crimea, Black Sea	11 dead, 1 homes destroyed, damage over $25 million
3 February 1923	magnitude 8.4 earthquake	Russia: Kamchatka	3 dead, $2 million damage
27 September 2003	magnitude 7.3 earthquake	Russia: Kosh-agach, Ust'-ulagan, Ongudai, Shebalino	3 dead, 300 homes destroyed, $11 million damage
3 February 1923	tsunami (waves to 8 m)	Kamchatka	3 dead, $2 million damage

These are the 25 deadliest and largest of 281 entries. A dash means NOAA recorded no number, not that nobody died. Older entries are fewer because fewer were written down, not because less happened.

Recorded history: NOAA NCEI hazard databases, public domain, retrieved 2026-10-22.

In the last 30 days

The most recent events our feeds placed in Russia:

7 November 2026: Other dangers - Sochi
7 November 2026: Snow - Sochi
7 November 2026: Rain - Krasnodar Krai
7 November 2026: Wind - South of Taymyrskiy Dolgano-Nenetskiy m.r.
7 November 2026: Other dangers - LPR
7 November 2026: Wind - South of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District
7 November 2026: Other dangers - South of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District
7 November 2026: Freezing rain, icing - Tambov Region
7 November 2026: Freezing rain, icing - Belgorod Region
7 November 2026: Other dangers - Ivanovo Region

What the threat reading is made of

Conflict	37
Unrest	0
Security	45
Spillover from neighbours	15
Natural hazard	75
Resilience	68

Each is 0 to 100. Resilience runs the other way to the rest: a high number is a country better able to absorb a shock, not a country in more trouble.

Large caldera systems here

Kurile Lake Caldera

Other countries tracked

Saudi Arabia Oil 62%
Singapore Oil 87%
Slovakia Oil 27%
Slovenia Oil 33%
Sweden Hydro 27%
Thailand Oil 46%
Turkmenistan Gas 77%
Trinidad and Tobago Gas 88%

All countries with a page.

Where the data comes from

Energy mix, 2024: Our World in Data, energy dataset (https://github.com/owid/energy-data), compiled by Pablo Rosado, Hannah Ritchie, Edouard Mathieu and Max Roser from the Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Ember and The Shift Dataportal. Licence: Our World in Data's own compilation is CC BY 4.0. The underlying figures stay under their original terms: Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, U.S. EIA, Ember and The Shift Dataportal. The percentages shown here and the wording are ours. Threat reading: computed by Rift Web from the feeds listed on the sources page.