M 4.7 in Afghanistan on 14 Jul 2015 14:35 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 1060341
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 88.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.8464 , 70.9862
Event Date: 14 Jul 2015 14:35 UTC
14 Jul 2015 19:05 Local
Exposed Population:
608774 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Jul 2015 17:21 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.8 -0.8
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),