M 5.1 in Azerbaijan on 20 Nov 2021 12:46 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 1297750
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.7489 , 48.7585
Event Date: 20 Nov 2021 12:46 UTC
20 Nov 2021 16:46 Local
Exposed Population:
3.1 million in 100km
Inserted at: 20 Nov 2021 13:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.7 (Azerbaijan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Azerbaijan= 4.7; Russia= 4.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
us7000fvr9 Scaled population (vector) 6.23  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.95  
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),