M 5.1 in Tajikistan on 14 Mar 2017 11:07 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 1107754
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.2694 , 73.4711
Event Date: 14 Mar 2017 11:07 UTC
14 Mar 2017 16:07 Local
Exposed Population:
About 49000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Mar 2017 11:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.1 (Tajikistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Tajikistan= 5.1; Kyrgyzstan= 4.5; China= 3.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100088v9 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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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),