M 5.6 in Tajikistan on 16 Jun 2020 01:30 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 1222460
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 127 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.8282 , 72.2131
Event Date: 16 Jun 2020 01:30 UTC
16 Jun 2020 06:30 Local
Exposed Population: 210000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Jun 2020 03:44 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.5 (Afghanistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Afghanistan= 7.5; Tajikistan= 5.1

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
us6000ack0 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

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Jammu and Kashmir: Terrorists Killed in Separate Encounters in Pulwama ... Thu, 18 Jun 2020 15:19:00 +0200.

New Delhi: A terrorist was killed in an encounter in Pulwama district in the middle of another gunbattle that broke out between militants and security forces in the neighbouring district of Shopian in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. Also Rea
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Another Earthquake! Low intensity tremor hits Rohtak near Delhi; check ... Thu, 18 Jun 2020 07:39:00 +0200.

in Haryana: A low intensity earthquake has today hit some parts of Haryana including Rohtak wherein some mild tremors were felt early morning. According to information provided by the National Centre for Seismology, the magnitude of the ear
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5.7 magnitude earthquake jolts parts of countryWed, 17 Jun 2020 06:47:00 +0200.

ISLAMABAD - A moderate earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale on Tuesday jolted several parts of the country including Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Swat, North Waziristan, Nowshera, Swat, Mansehra, and Abbottabad. The National Se
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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),