M 4.7 in Tajikistan on 08 Jan 2022 19:56 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 1305116
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 104.19 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.6976 , 73.7327
Event Date: 08 Jan 2022 19:56 UTC
09 Jan 2022 00:56 Local
Exposed Population:
30 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 09 Jan 2022 00:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.1 (Tajikistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Tajikistan= 5.1; Kyrgyzstan= 4.5; China= 3.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ga8b Scaled population (vector) 4.21  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0.04  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),