M 4.6 in Pakistan on 18 Mar 2017 00:31 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 1108090
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 23.41 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.3027 , 65.5345
Event Date: 18 Mar 2017 00:31 UTC
18 Mar 2017 05:31 Local
Exposed Population:
280000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Mar 2017 00:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.7 (Pakistan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008swt Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Mild Earthquake Hits Pakistani Capital 3/21/2017 11:46:00 AM.

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Earthquake hits Pak capital 3/21/2017 11:20:00 AM.

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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),