M 5.4 in Tajikistan on 18 Mar 2016 16:11 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 1082749
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.967 , 72.4553
Event Date: 18 Mar 2016 16:11 UTC
18 Mar 2016 21:11 Local
Exposed Population:
119641 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Mar 2016 16:33 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
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: 183 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

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Brüssel - Die belgischen Behörden haben die Terrorwarnstufe für Brüssel auf das höchste Niveau angehoben. Damit sehen die Behörden eine „sehr ernste“ Bedrohung durch unmittelbar bevorstehende Anschläge. Das war zuletzt im November 2015 der
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Facebook activates 'Safety Check' amid Brussels attack crisisTue, 22 Mar 2016 15:47:00 +0100.

Facebook Inc. has activated a feature that allows users to easily inform their friends and relatives that they are safe in response to the Brussels terrorist attacks Tuesday. The "Safety Check" feature was also activated after terrorist att
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Facebook activa la opción 'Estoy bien' tras el atentado en BruselasTue, 22 Mar 2016 15:46:00 +0100.

. Como sucedió en los atentados de París de 2015, Facebook ha activado su botón 'Estoy bien', con el que el usuario puede advertir a sus allegados de que se encuentra bien. Las redes sociales también se suman en las labores de ayuda tras e
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Höchste Warnstufe - Attentäter noch auf freiem Fuß?Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:41:00 +0100.

Brüssel - Die belgischen Behörden haben die Terrorwarnstufe für Brüssel auf das höchste Niveau angehoben. Damit sehen die Behörden eine „sehr ernste“ Bedrohung durch unmittelbar bevorstehende Anschläge. Das war zuletzt im November 2015 der
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),