M 5.9 in Afghanistan on 10 Aug 2015 10:05 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1062684
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 224 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.5199 , 71.2009
Event Date: 10 Aug 2015 10:05 UTC
10 Aug 2015 14:35 Local
Exposed Population:
748585 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Aug 2015 11:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 1.1 1.1
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),