M 4.6 in Turkmenistan on 06 Dec 2012 18:29 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 121297
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.13 , 54.16
Event Date: 06 Dec 2012 18:29 UTC
06 Dec 2012 23:29 Local
Exposed Population:
160000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Dec 2012 08:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0.5 0.5
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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 (40), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),