M 4.7 in Kyrgyzstan on 18 Dec 2021 05:42 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 1302264
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.1529 , 70.0303
Event Date: 18 Dec 2021 05:42 UTC
18 Dec 2021 11:42 Local
Exposed Population:
4.3 million in 100km
Inserted at: 18 Dec 2021 06:11 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 0.3 0.3
us6000gdcd Scaled population (vector) 6.57  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0.04  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),