M 5 in Turkmenistan on 05 Feb 2017 15:59 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 1104844
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.3021 , 54.733
Event Date: 05 Feb 2017 15:59 UTC
05 Feb 2017 20:59 Local
Exposed Population:
190000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Feb 2017 17:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Turkmenistan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us20008hsv Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 215 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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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), INFORM (2), USGS (2),