M 4.7 in Tajikistan on 03 Feb 2017 04:36 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 1104681
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 16.72 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.2006 , 70.755
Event Date: 03 Feb 2017 04:36 UTC
03 Feb 2017 09:36 Local
Exposed Population:
2930000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Feb 2017 04:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.1 (Tajikistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Tajikistan= 5.1; Kyrgyzstan= 4.5; Uzbekistan= 4.1

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us20008hal Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Tajikistan: Humanitarian Bulletin, Caucasus and Central Asia, Issue 7 .. 2/6/2017 1:14:00 PM.

HIGHLIGHTS Last year was relatively calm across the region, with countries that usually suffer from seasonal disasters, such as Armenia, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan, mostly spared. Tajikistan experiences one of the costliest years on record in t
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On different sections of roads of the country descent of snow avalanch.. 2/3/2017 1:16:00 PM.

DUSHANBE, 03.02.2017. /NIAT “Khovar”/. Due to heavy rainfall in the mountainous areas of Tajikistan on different sections of roads Dushanbe — Khujand, Dushanbe — Jirgatol, Khorog — Ishkashim and Khorog – Darvaz for the last days was recorde
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13:30 2nd quake jolts Uzbekistan in 24 hours 2/3/2017 9:22:00 AM.

AKIPRESS.COM - The second earthquake was registered in Uzbekistan at 9:37 am today, reports the Tashkent seismic station. The 2-magnitude earthquake hit the capital city with the epicenter measuring 4.9 magnitude. It struck 170 km south-wes
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Avalanches kill at least 7 in Tajikistan 1/31/2017 5:56:00 AM.

Authorities in Tajikistan said Monday that at least seven people were killed in a series of avalanches that hit the mountainous Central Asian country over the weekend. Avalanches killed at least five people on a highway linking the capital
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),