M 5.5 in Tajikistan on 24 Jan 2020 07:09 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 1203155
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.1397 , 71.5177
Event Date: 24 Jan 2020 07:09 UTC
24 Jan 2020 12:09 Local
Exposed Population: About 7000 people in MMI
350000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Jan 2020 07:40 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.5 (Afghanistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Afghanistan= 7.5; Tajikistan= 5.1; Kyrgyzstan= 4.5

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
us60007ei6 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.29  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 7 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

4-magnitude earthquake occurs in KyrgyzstanFri, 24 Jan 2020 11:48:00 +0100.

An earthquake occurred today in Kyrgyzstan. Press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported. The earthquake focus was located in Tajikistan. 6-magnitide shocks were registered there today at 13.09. Intensity of the quake reac
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Magnitude 5.5 earthquake strikes near Karakenja in TajikistanFri, 24 Jan 2020 09:22:00 +0100.

A shallow earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck near Karakenja in Tajikistan on Friday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties in the quake, which the monitoring age
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Magnitude 5.5 earthquake strikes near Karakenja in Tajikistan - EMSCFri, 24 Jan 2020 09:14:00 +0100.

(Reuters) - A shallow earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck near Karakenja in Tajikistan on Friday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties in the quake, which the mo
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Earthquake occurs on border of Kyrgyzstan and TajikistanThu, 16 Jan 2020 00:46:00 +0100.

AKIPRESS.COM - Earthquake occurred on the border of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the Ministry of Emergency Situations said citing the Institute of Seismology. The tremors were felt in Bor-Dobo village of Alai district, Osh region at magnitude
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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), USGS (5), WMO (1), INFORM (2),