Overall Green Earthquake alert in Tajikistan on 21 Feb 2017 10:24 UTC

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M 4.7 in Tajikistan on 21 Feb 2017 10:24 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 1106081
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	39.0495 , 69.9799
Event Date:	21 Feb 2017 10:24 UTC 21 Feb 2017 15:24 Local
Exposed Population:	500000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	21 Feb 2017 11:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	7.5 (Afghanistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list:	Afghanistan= 7.5; Tajikistan= 5.1; Kyrgyzstan= 4.5

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.2		0.2
us20008l2v	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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Search operation for three persons buried by avalanche last week under.. 2/23/2017 1:01:00 PM.

A search operation for three persons who were buried by an avalanche in the Varzob district last Friday is under way. Relatives of three men who were buried by an avalanche on the 72nd kilometer of the Dushanbe-Khujand highway on February 1

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11-year-old boy killed by avalanche in eastern Tajikistan 2/23/2017 6:38:00 AM.

An eleven-year-old boy has been killed by an avalanche in Sangvor (formerly Tavildara) district in Rasht Valley (eastern Tajikistan), according to the press center of the Committee on Emergency Situations and Civil Defense (CES) under the G

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Three roadmen of the Branch of Innovative Road Solutions Ltd (IRS) in .. 2/20/2017 10:21:00 AM.

the toll on the Dushanbe-Khujand highway, have been killed by an avalanche on the highway connecting Dushanbe and Tajikistan’s second largest city, Khujand. The tragedy occurred Saturday (February) evening 72 kilometers north of Dushanbe. T

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14:31 3 road cleaners die in avalanche in Tajikistan 2/20/2017 9:51:00 AM.

AKIPRESS.COM Three employees of the company Innovative Road Solutions (IRS) clearing the Dushanbe Khujand road were killed during the avalanche, reports Avesta news agency. The incident occurred on February 18 on 72nd km of the Dushanbe Khu

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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),

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