M 5.1 in Tajikistan on 03 Mar 2013 03:12 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 123056
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 38.7136 , 71.537
Event Date: 03 Mar 2013 03:12 UTC
03 Mar 2013 08:12 Local
Exposed Population:
230000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Mar 2013 03:33 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
usc000ffef Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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),