M 4.7 in Afghanistan on 17 Jan 2016 19:46 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 1078773
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 88.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.0552 , 71.2096
Event Date: 17 Jan 2016 19:46 UTC
18 Jan 2016 00:16 Local
Exposed Population:
833016 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Jan 2016 21:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.7 -0.7
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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Meteo assessment
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 341 | About casualties: 64 | Last hour: 0

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"J’ai pris un fantôme dans mon taxi"Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:18:00 +0100.

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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),