M 4.8 in Tajikistan on 03 May 2017 04:46 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 1111932
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.533 , 71.3138
Event Date: 03 May 2017 04:46 UTC
03 May 2017 10:46 Local
Exposed Population: 930000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 May 2017 05:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.1 (Tajikistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Tajikistan= 5.1; Kyrgyzstan= 4.5; Uzbekistan= 4.1

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
us10008npq Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),