M 5.6 in Tajikistan on 29 Mar 2018 22:54 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 1138910
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 3.62 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.7406 , 69.9547
Event Date: 29 Mar 2018 22:54 UTC
30 Mar 2018 03:54 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI VII
1640000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Mar 2018 23:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.5 (Tajikistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Afghanistan= 7.5; Tajikistan= 5.1; Kyrgyzstan= 4.5

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000db5t Scaled population (vector) 0.3  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 6 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Uzbekistan hit by earthquakeSat, 31 Mar 2018 14:05:00 +0200.

Baku, Azerbaijan, March 31. By Fikret Dolukhanov – Trend: Another earthquake with an epicenter located 465 kilometers south from Tashkent in the territory of Afghanistan was felt in Uzbekistan at 23:45 (GMT +5) on March 30, the press servic
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Earthquake of magnitude 5.2 jolts parts of Khyber PakhtunkhwaSat, 31 Mar 2018 12:11:00 +0200.

PESHAWAR : A hight intensity earthquake jolted various districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) on Saturday morning but no loss was reported from anywhere. According to geological wing of PMD, tremours measuring 5.2 on Richter scale were felt
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12:38 Uzbekistan feels earthquake recorded in TajikistanFri, 30 Mar 2018 09:29:00 +0200.

AKIPRESS.COM - Earthquake with the epicenter in Tajikistan was registered in Tashkent on March 30 at 3:54 am local time, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported. The intensity of the jolt in the epicenter was measured at 5.8 magnitude
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Un terremoto de magnitud 5,6 sacude TayikistánFri, 30 Mar 2018 02:25:00 +0200.

Un terremoto de magnitud 5,6 ha sacudido Tayikistán en la noche de este jueves, según informa el Servicio Geológico de EE.UU. (USGS, por sus siglas en inglés). El sismo se ha producido a las 22:54 UTC, a unos 8,7 kilómetros al sudeste de la
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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),