M 4.5 in Afghanistan on 02 Dec 2015 10:02 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 1074296
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 41.35 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.9738 , 69.3187
Event Date: 02 Dec 2015 10:02 UTC
02 Dec 2015 14:32 Local
Exposed Population:
2986923 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Dec 2015 10:33 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 399 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

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SOUTH AMERICASun, 06 Dec 2015 04:14:00 +0100.

A photographer who travelled into Brazil has caught a glimpse at an Amazonian tribe close to extinction who are so removed from the modern world, they breastfeed their pets until they are fully grown. Pushing over a brick wall with your ba
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Opinião Opção nuclear cresce de importância com a COP-21Sun, 06 Dec 2015 03:17:00 +0100.

À medida que os líderes de 196 nações discutem na COP-21, em Paris, um compromisso formal para conter o aquecimento e evitar seus efeitos catastróficos, não há praticamente mais dúvida na comunidade científica de que o extraordinário aument
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Terremoto de magnitud 7,1 en el Océano ÍndicoSun, 06 Dec 2015 00:45:00 +0100.

. Un terremoto de 7,1 grados en la escala Richter se registró este sábado en las proximidades de las islas Heard y McDonald, al oeste de Australia, en el Océano Índico, informó el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS). El sismo se pr
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),