M 5 in Tajikistan on 13 Jan 2016 21:37 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 1078535
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 38.62 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.7231 , 73.1571
Event Date: 13 Jan 2016 21:37 UTC
14 Jan 2016 02:37 Local
Exposed Population:
About 37715 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Jan 2016 22:03 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
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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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),