M 4.5 in Kyrgyzstan on 23 Jan 2017 01:40 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 1103858
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 40.1484 , 71.9165
Event Date: 23 Jan 2017 01:40 UTC
23 Jan 2017 07:40 Local
Exposed Population:
5790000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Jan 2017 03:27 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 0
us10007ux5 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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 (40), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),