M 4.8 in Kyrgyzstan on 28 Apr 2017 05:01 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 1111443
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 15.09 Km
Lat/Lon: 41.9297 , 76.7602
Event Date: 28 Apr 2017 05:01 UTC
28 Apr 2017 11:01 Local
Exposed Population:
160000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Apr 2017 05:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.5 (Kyrgyzstan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008li5 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 570 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

Russia 'can launch tsunami against US with nuclear bombs' The Telegrap ... Tue, 02 May 2017 03:48:00 +0200.

A retired Russian colonel has made outlandish claims that Moscow has planted nuclear missiles off the east coast of America that could trigger a tsunami if detonated. The far-fetched plans were outlined by Viktor Baranetz, who claimed it wa
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الجزائر بين الانتخابات المزيفة والتغيير الحقيقي.L’Algérie entre les él ... Mon, 01 May 2017 23:26:00 +0200.

الجزائر بين الانتخابات المزيفة والتغيير الحقيقي مرة أخرى، تجند السلطة عملائها من الازلام والريعين لتنظيم ما يطلق عليه الشعب كرنفال في دشرة من أجل تجديد غرفتها للتسجيل التي لا يحتاج زيفها وفراغها الى اتباث. وهكذا يقوم النظام مرة أخرى بتفصيل
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Ученые узнали, что вызывает цунами в действительностиMon, 01 May 2017 22:05:00 +0200.

Ученые провели научный эксперимент, с помощью которого узнали, какие факторы по сути вызывают такое природное явление как цунами. Происходит это из-за того, что одна тектоническая пластинка скользит по другой, производя колосальный выброс э
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Centre allows beacon use for emergenciesMon, 01 May 2017 22:04:00 +0200.

The Centre on Monday issued a notification allowing officials on emergency and disaster management-related duties to use beacons on top of their vehicles. The notification allows use of multi-coloured — red, blue and white light — beacons o
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),