M 4.5 in Tajikistan on 27 Jan 2024 05:28 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 1412297
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 19.8 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.7646 , 70.3895
Event Date: 27 Jan 2024 05:28 UTC
27 Jan 2024 10:28 Local
Exposed Population:
10 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 27 Jan 2024 06:22 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.1 (Tajikistan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000luag 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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Earthquake of magnitude 4.5 jolts Tajikistan 1/28/2024 7:36:00 PM.

ANI | Updated: Jan 29, 2024 00:02 IST. Dushanbe [Tajikistan], January 29 (ANI): An of magnitude 4.5 on the struck Tajikistan on Sunday, the reported. "Earthquake of Magnitude: 4.5, Occurred on 28-01-2024, 21:07:42 IST, Lat: 36.99 & Lo
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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),