M 4.9 in Kyrgyzstan on 05 Aug 2020 08:18 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 1228949
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.1424 , 70.7955
Event Date: 05 Aug 2020 08:18 UTC
05 Aug 2020 14:18 Local
Exposed Population:
4610000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Aug 2020 08:53 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.1 (Tajikistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Tajikistan= 5.1; Kyrgyzstan= 4.5; Uzbekistan= 4.1

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.6 0.6
us6000b9kb Scaled population (vector) 6.79  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0.04  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Society Moderate earthquake recorded in Kyrgyzstan 06/08 11:03Thu, 06 Aug 2020 07:25:00 +0200.

Bishkek, Aug. 6, 2020. /Kabar/. An earthquake of magnitude 5 was registered on the territory of Kyrgyzstan on Aug. 5 at 2:18 p.m. According to the press service of the Institute of Seismology of the National Academy of Sciences, the earthqu
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Minor quake jolts south of KyrgyzstanTue, 14 Jul 2020 06:11:00 +0200.

AKIPRESS.COM - The magnitude 3 earthquake was registered in the south of Kyrgyzstan, the Seismology Institute of the National Academy of Sciences reported. The epicenter of the earthquake is 15 km to the north-west of Sulukta, 18 km to the
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4-magnitude earthquake recorded in southern KyrgyzstanMon, 13 Jul 2020 06:42:00 +0200.

AKIPRESS.COM - Earthquake of 4 magnitude was registered in Kyrgyzstan in the morning of July 12, the seismology institute of the Academy of Sciences reported. The earthquake epicenter was located on the territory of Kyrgyzstan: 13 km south-
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Minor earthquake reported in south of KyrgyzstanMon, 06 Jul 2020 10:28:00 +0200.

Bishkek, July 6, 2020 /Kabar/. 3.5-magnitude earthquake was recorded in Osh Oblast of Kyrgyzstan on July 5 at 6:40 p.m. 3 points tremors were felt in the village of Bar-Dobo, Alay region, the press service of the Institute of Seismology of
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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),