M 5.3 in Armenia on 13 Feb 2022 18:25 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 1309964
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 41.1537 , 44.0042
Event Date: 13 Feb 2022 18:25 UTC
13 Feb 2022 22:25 Local
Exposed Population: About 17000 people in MMI
3 million in 100km
Inserted at: 14 Feb 2022 16:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.9 (Armenia)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Armenia= 4.9; Azerbaijan= 4.7; Georgia= 3.4; Türkiye= 3.2

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000gkl5 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.98  
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),