M 4.9 in Tajikistan on 07 Dec 2015 11:48 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 1074941
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 39.06 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.5131 , 73.0463
Event Date: 07 Dec 2015 11:48 UTC
07 Dec 2015 16:48 Local
Exposed Population:
About 48269 people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Dec 2015 12:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
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: 232 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

Situación "indigna" de desplazadosFri, 11 Dec 2015 11:32:00 +0100.

"Es un acontecimiento dramático. Estamos viendo a 2.000 familias dejarlo todo en cuestión de días para vivir hacinadas y en condiciones indignas durante los próximos 3 o 5 meses", dijo a Efe el religioso dominico. Velasco tiene su actividad
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"Algo va mal cuando el mar es más seguro que tierra firme"Fri, 11 Dec 2015 11:21:00 +0100.

Hace diez años, y en plena crisis personal, las imágenes del tsunami de Tailandia impactaron a la británica Sarah Griffith (Guernsey, Channel Island, 1959), que decidió viajar a la isla de Sri Lanka, también afectada por la catástrofe. Lueg
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"Algo va mal cuando el mar es más seguro que tierra firme"Fri, 11 Dec 2015 11:08:00 +0100.

Hace diez años, y en plena crisis personal, las imágenes del tsunami de Tailandia impactaron a la británica Sarah Griffith (Guernsey, Channel Island, 1959), que decidió viajar a la isla de Sri Lanka, también afectada por la catástrofe. Lueg
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Fresh tatami mats awaiting future disaster victims, courtesy of earthq ... Fri, 11 Dec 2015 08:16:00 +0100.

A tatami shop owner who lost his home in the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995 is helping natural disaster victims with a project to supply them with traditional straw mats. Hundreds of manufacturers have signed up for Toshiyasu Maeda’s indu
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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),