M 5 in Tajikistan on 31 Mar 2024 00:25 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 1421893
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.043 , 70.8693
Event Date: 31 Mar 2024 00:25 UTC
31 Mar 2024 05:25 Local
Exposed Population:
40 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 31 Mar 2024 00:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.1 (Tajikistan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000m90b Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),