M 5.7 in Tajikistan on 12 May 2012 23:28 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 116881
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Glide number: EQ-2012-000082-TJK
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.6582 , 70.4138
Event Date: 12 May 2012 23:28 UTC
13 May 2012 04:28 Local
Exposed Population: About 1000 people in MMI
660000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Feb 2017 13:10 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.7 0.7
usb0009nsb Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

Tajikistan: Earthquake in Rasht valley, Direct Rule Districts Tajikist.. 5/25/2012 12:15:00 PM.

Source: UN Country Team in Tajikistan Country: Tajikistan Situation Overview A 5.7 Richter scale earthquake occurred on the night of May 13th, 2012 in the Rasht valley, central Tajikistan. The earthquake affected the three districts of Nura
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Tajikistan: Tajikistan: Earthquake DREF operation n° MDRTJ014 5/22/2012 2:05:00 PM.

Source: IFRC Country: Tajikistan CHF 138,467 has been allocated from the IFRC’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) to support the Red Crescent Society of Tajikistan in delivering immediate assistance to some 558 households (3,348 benefic
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Tavildara residents to remove to Kumsangir 5/17/2012 7:50:00 AM.

During their meeting with the visiting President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon Tavildara residents asked Tajik President to resettle them to more safer places. On Wednesday President Rahmon visited Rasht and Tavildara regions which suffered
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Earthquake destroyed more than 100 houses in Tavildara 5/15/2012 12:23:00 PM.

Tajik Emergency and Civil Defense Committee provided new data about the consequences of the recent earthquake which caused severe damage to eastern part of the country. The disaster caused damage to 100 houses in Tavildara region, of which
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),