M 4.6 in Tajikistan on 09 May 2017 15:10 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 1112539
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.9419 , 70.529
Event Date: 09 May 2017 15:10 UTC
09 May 2017 20:10 Local
Exposed Population:
440000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 May 2017 16:33 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 0.1 0.1
us10008quy 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

China: 8 dead, 23 injured in Xinjiang's 5.5-magnitude earthquake 5/13/2017 1:25:00 AM.

TAXKORGAN, Xinjiang, May 11 (Xinhua) -- Eight people have been confirmed dead and 23 others were injured after a 5.5-magnitude earthquake jolted Taxkorgan County in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at 5:58 a.m. Thursday. .
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China: China launches emergency response to Xinjiang quake 5/13/2017 1:25:00 AM.

BEIJING, May 11 (Xinhua) -- China has activated emergency response procedures following a 5.5-magnitude earthquake in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region early Thursday morning. The China Earthquake Administration activated level-III emergency
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16:20 Earthquake kills 8 people in Tajik-populated district in China 5/12/2017 12:44:00 PM.

AKIPRESS.COM - Chinese authorities say an earthquake has killed at least eight people and injured 23 in a western district populated mainly by ethnic Tajiks, the reports. RFE/RL Officials said the 5.5-magnitude quake hit Taxkorgan Tajik Cou
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Magnitude 3.0 quake strikes near Lake Sarez 5/12/2017 11:53:00 AM.

The Geophysics Service of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan reports an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.0 struck in the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO), 357 kilometers southeast of Dushanbe and 23 kilometers from Lake Sarez, o
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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),