M 4.5 in Tajikistan on 06 Aug 2016 17:00 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 1091391
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 11.02 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.7603 , 70.6258
Event Date: 06 Aug 2016 17:00 UTC
06 Aug 2016 22:00 Local
Exposed Population:
505802 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Aug 2016 18:33 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006bv6 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

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Brunei invited by U.S. to take part in multilateral exerciseWed, 10 Aug 2016 16:31:00 +0200.

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