M 4.6 in Azerbaijan on 06 Feb 2017 13:46 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 1104938
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.446 , 50.6236
Event Date: 06 Feb 2017 13:46 UTC
06 Feb 2017 17:46 Local
Exposed Population:
2210000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Feb 2017 15:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Turkmenistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Turkmenistan= 6.1; Azerbaijan= 4.7

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008hxg Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),