Overall Green Earthquake alert in Afghanistan on 27 Jan 2017 07:40 UTC

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M 4.9 in Afghanistan on 27 Jan 2017 07:40 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 1104164
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	Km
Lat/Lon:	36.4553 , 71.3215
Event Date:	27 Jan 2017 07:40 UTC 27 Jan 2017 12:10 Local
Exposed Population:	540000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	27 Jan 2017 07:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	7.5 (Afghanistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list:	Afghanistan= 7.5; Pakistan= 5.7; Tajikistan= 5.1

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	-0.5		-0.5
us10007vnn	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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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),

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