M 4.8 in Afghanistan on 26 Jun 2015 17:41 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 1058652
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 29.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.4702 , 69.3009
Event Date: 26 Jun 2015 17:41 UTC
26 Jun 2015 22:11 Local
Exposed Population:
3575812 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Jun 2015 18:03 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 204 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Toshiba's 'scorpion' robot will look into Fukushima reactorTue, 30 Jun 2015 17:00:00 +0200.

YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) " A new robot that raises its tail like a scorpion is scheduled to look at melted nuclear fuel inside one of the three wrecked reactors in Japan. Toshiba Corp., co-developer of the "scorpion" crawler that was demonstrat
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Toshiba's 'scorpion' robot will try to look at melted fuel inside wrec ... Tue, 30 Jun 2015 16:56:00 +0200.

Photographers take pictures of a robot developed by Toshiba Corp. during a demonstration at its laboratory in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, Tuesday, June 30, 2015. As Japan struggles in the early stages of decades-long cleanup of the Fukushima nucl
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Terremoto de 5,8 estremece Papúa Nueva GuineaTue, 30 Jun 2015 16:35:00 +0200.

Autoridades han descartado de momento cualquier alerta de tsunami y no han reportado daños materiales. Un sismo de magnitud 5,8 se registró este martes en la isla de Nueva Bretaña, en la región norte de Papúa Nueva Guinea, según datos preli
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Toshiba's 'Scorpion' Robot Will Look Into Fukushima ReactorTue, 30 Jun 2015 16:04:00 +0200.

. A new robot that raises its tail like a scorpion is scheduled to look at melted nuclear fuel inside one of the three wrecked reactors in Toshiba Corp. is co-developer of the "scorpion" crawler that was demonstrated Tuesday. The company s
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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),