M 4.8 in Kyrgyzstan on 28 Apr 2017 05:01 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 1111443
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 15.09 Km
Lat/Lon: 41.9297 , 76.7602
Event Date: 28 Apr 2017 05:01 UTC
28 Apr 2017 11:01 Local
Exposed Population:
160000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Apr 2017 05:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.5 (Kyrgyzstan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008li5 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

12:53 5 magnitude quake jolts northern Kyrgyzstan 4/28/2017 9:29:00 AM.

AKIPRESS.COM - The earthquake with 5 magnitude in epicenter was recorded in Kyrgyzstan on April 28 at about 11:00 am, the Seismology Institute of the National Academy of Sciences reported. The jolt was centered in the Teskey Ala-Too mountai
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Minor earthquake hits Bishkek 4/21/2017 8:28:00 AM.

Bishkek, April 21 / Kabar /. The earthquake occurred in Chui oblast of Kyrgyzstan, the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported. According to the information, today 4-4.5 earthquake was registered at 06:42 local time i
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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),