M 5 in Turkmenistan on 12 Oct 2015 21:37 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 1068917
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.4003 , 57.0903
Event Date: 12 Oct 2015 21:37 UTC
13 Oct 2015 02:37 Local
Exposed Population:
394610 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Oct 2015 22:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
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.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 300 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

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Junji adquirirá 28 carros de evacuación para párvulosFri, 16 Oct 2015 16:45:00 +0200.

Constantemente las niñas y niños que asisten a los jardines infantiles de JUNJI, situados bajo la cota de inundabilidad, participan en simulacros de tsunami y terremoto. Ayer, el ejercicio fue diferente ya que los párvulos de salas cuna lo
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Water tank Sunshine Coast Public University Hospital collapsesFri, 16 Oct 2015 14:17:00 +0200.

Huge water tank collapses and washes a car containing a mother and two children off the road with a 'tsunami like wave' 2.7 million litre water tank collapsed near a highway on the Sunshine Coast; The chaos blocked the entry to the Public U
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Rasa, Bahasa dan Telinga. Untuk pertamakalinya publik Jerman bisa mencicipi Indonesia secara intim, yakni lewat Frankfurt Book Fair. Untuk itu komite nasional menyiapkan lebih dari 300 acara dan sebuah paviliun yang menyapa panca indera pen
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),