M 4.8 in Kyrgyzstan on 17 Nov 2015 17:40 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 1072628
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 44.28 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.4479 , 73.0097
Event Date: 17 Nov 2015 17:40 UTC
17 Nov 2015 23:40 Local
Exposed Population:
4765670 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Nov 2015 19:36 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 344 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

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Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan: Earthquake Emergency Plan of Action EPoA (MDRK ... Sat, 21 Nov 2015 17:05:00 +0100.

A. Situation analysis. Description of the disaster. An earthquake with 6.7 magnitude struck the Osh Province/Oblast of Kyrgyzstan at 23:29 local time on 17 November 2015, causing a wide range of damage in six districts of the province – Kar
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Indonesia | Registran sismo de 6,1 gradosSat, 21 Nov 2015 15:53:00 +0100.

Un terremoto de 6,1 grados de magnitud sacudió hoy las aguas cercanas al archipiélago de las Babar, en el sureste de Indonesia, sin que las autoridades hayan informado de víctimas o daños materiales. El Instituto Geológico de Estados Unidos
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),