Overall Green Earthquake alert in Tajikistan on 18 Sep 2024 19:52 UTC

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M 4.7 in Tajikistan on 18 Sep 2024 19:52 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 1446315
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	42 Km
Lat/Lon:	37.6369 , 71.6406
Event Date:	18 Sep 2024 19:52 UTC 19 Sep 2024 00:52 Local
Exposed Population:	40 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at:	22 Sep 2024 20:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	7.5 (Afghanistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list:	Afghanistan= 7.5; Tajikistan= 5.1

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000nsxt	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 rapid impact	0
	C2 rapid impact	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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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),

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