M 4.7 in Tajikistan on 13 Dec 2015 20:09 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 1075776
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 43.78 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.2907 , 72.9184
Event Date: 13 Dec 2015 20:09 UTC
14 Dec 2015 01:09 Local
Exposed Population:
About 54565 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Dec 2015 20:36 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  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 350 | About casualties: 64 | Last hour: 0

The Disaster Most Likely to Cause Global Famine Is Not an Earthquake, ... Thu, 17 Dec 2015 19:51:00 +0100.

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Wogegen richten sich die Klagen? Das Moratorium für die ältesten deutschen Blöcke hatten die Bundesregierung und die Ministerpräsidenten der Atomländer wenige Tage nach Fukushima vereinbart. Kurz danach folgte die Änderung des Atomgesetzes
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The Disaster Most Likely to Cause Global Famine Is Not an Earthquake, ... Thu, 17 Dec 2015 19:30:00 +0100.

The world has faced down some incredibly large-scale natural disasters lately—and the wreckage they left in their wake has been considerable. But the one that is most threatening to our food supply is a natural disaster that has been unfold
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Conmoción en el mundo por la inquietante última profecía de la "Nostra ... Thu, 17 Dec 2015 18:06:00 +0100.

Una anciana, fallecida en 1996, es responsable de predecir grandes conmociones mundiales, como el tsunami de 2004, o el atentado al Wall Trade Center. Ahora, un último y macabro presagio parece comenzar a cumplirse inexorablemente. Se trata
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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),