M 5.9 in Tajikistan from 03 May 2017 04:46 UTC to 04:47

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1111932
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.51 , 71.4027
Event Date: 03 May 2017 04:47 UTC
03 May 2017 09:47 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI VI
730000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 May 2017 05:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.1 (Tajikistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Tajikistan= 5.1; Kyrgyzstan= 4.5; Uzbekistan= 4.1

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.8 0.8
us10008npq 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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Latest media headlines

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Earthquake hits part of Alaska's Aleutian Islands chainSun, 07 May 2017 03:42:00 +0200.

Anchorage (US), May 7 (AP) The Alaska Earthquake Centre reports that a magnitude 4.9 earthquake hit part of the Aleutian Islands chain. The centre says the quake struck about 12:43 pm (Alaska time) yesterday in the Fox Islands region of the
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Earthquake hits part of Alaska's Aleutian Islands chainSun, 07 May 2017 03:16:00 +0200.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- The Alaska Earthquake Center reports that a magnitude 4.9 earthquake hit part of the Aleutian Islands chain. The center says the quake struck about 12:43 p.m. Saturday Alaska time in the Fox Islands region of the A
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Earthquake hits part of Alaska's Aleutian Islands chainSun, 07 May 2017 03:10:00 +0200.

The center says the quake struck about 12:43 p.m. Saturday Alaska time in the Fox Islands region of the Aleutians. The epicenter was 69 miles (110 kilometers) east of the Amukta Pass. The National Tsunami Warning Center says there is no ts
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Earthquake hits part of Alaska's Aleutian Islands chainSun, 07 May 2017 02:51:00 +0200.

Earthquake hits part of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands chain. Earthquake hits part of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands chain The Alaska Earthquake Centre reports that a magnitude 4.9 earthquake hit part of the Aleutian Islands chain. By: | Anchorage
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),