M 4.6 in Uzbekistan on 08 Aug 2016 11:50 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 1091485
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 15.36 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.9657 , 67.5637
Event Date: 08 Aug 2016 11:50 UTC
08 Aug 2016 16:50 Local
Exposed Population:
3371490 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Aug 2016 12:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006c1e 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.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Un cutremur cu magnitudinea de 7,2 s-a produs vineri la aproximativ 535 km la sud-est de arhipelagul Vanuatu din Pacific, a informat agen?ia americana de specialitate, United States Geological Survey (USGS). UPDATE| Alerta de tsunami a fost
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),