M 4.9 in Tajikistan on 22 May 2017 09:23 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 1113562
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.4399 , 73.5297
Event Date: 22 May 2017 09:23 UTC
22 May 2017 15:23 Local
Exposed Population:
About 53000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 May 2017 10:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.1 (Tajikistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Tajikistan= 5.1; Kyrgyzstan= 4.5; China= 3.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008u3z 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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),