M 4.5 in Kazakhstan on 19 Aug 2019 13:14 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 1187149
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 16.38 Km
Lat/Lon: 45.0425 , 79.8295
Event Date: 19 Aug 2019 13:14 UTC
19 Aug 2019 19:14 Local
Exposed Population:
320000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Aug 2019 13:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.7 (Kazakhstan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Kazakhstan= 3.7; China= 3.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us600056yp Scaled population (vector) 5.09  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.83  
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Latest media headlines

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

Earthquakes occur in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, KazakhstanMon, 19 Aug 2019 07:38:00 +0200.

AKIPRESS.COM - Earthquake jolted Uzbekistan on August 18 evening, according to the Republican Center for Seismic and Prognostic Monitoring of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Uzbekistan. Shocks were felt in several cities of Uzbekist
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Kazakhstan hit by 5.4 magnitude earthquake - Interior MinistryMon, 19 Aug 2019 06:06:00 +0200.

AKIPRESS.COM - A 5.4 magnitude earthquake hit Kazakhstan's Almaty region on Sunday, Sputnik reports with reference to the Interior Ministry of the country. "The earthquake's energy class was 12.8, magnitude 5.4, depth 5 kilometres [3.1 mile
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South Kazakhstan hit by 5.4-magnitude earthquakeSun, 18 Aug 2019 08:11:00 +0200.

A 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck the Almaty region in southern Kazakhstan early on Sunday, the official spokesman for the Kazakh interior ministry’s emergency situations committee told reporters, reports citing TASS. "At 05:07 on August 1
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South Kazakhstan hit by 5.4-magnitude earthquakeSun, 18 Aug 2019 05:41:00 +0200.

NUR-SULTAN, August 18. /TASS/. A 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck the Almaty region in southern Kazakhstan early on Sunday, the official spokesman for the Kazakh interior ministry’s emergency situations committee told reporters. "At 05:07 [l
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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),