M 4.6 in Tajikistan on 04 May 2026 05:55 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 1538912
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 106 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.5799 , 73.7437
Event Date: 04 May 2026 05:55 UTC
04 May 2026 10:55 Local
Exposed Population:
30 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 04 May 2026 10:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.1 (Tajikistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Tajikistan= 5.1; China= 3.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000si2w Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),