M 4.6 in Turkmenistan on 17 Oct 2023 19:17 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 1396453
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.1009 , 62.3669
Event Date: 17 Oct 2023 19:17 UTC
18 Oct 2023 00:17 Local
Exposed Population:
6 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 17 Oct 2023 22:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Turkmenistan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000lg7a Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Latest media headlines

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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),