M 4.6 in Kazakhstan on 23 Jan 2018 01:26 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 1131588
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 16.88 Km
Lat/Lon: 41.3939 , 69.0047
Event Date: 23 Jan 2018 01:26 UTC
23 Jan 2018 07:26 Local
Exposed Population:
5660000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Jan 2018 02:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.1 (Tajikistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Tajikistan= 5.1; Kyrgyzstan= 4.5; Uzbekistan= 4.1; Kazakhstan= 3.7

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
us2000cmve Scaled population (vector) 7.16  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0.04  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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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),