M 4.6 in Afghanistan on 16 Apr 2016 02:10 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 1084495
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 95.13 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.0491 , 70.7759
Event Date: 16 Apr 2016 02:10 UTC
16 Apr 2016 06:40 Local
Exposed Population:
536623 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Apr 2016 02:33 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.9 -0.9
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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 590 | About casualties: 83 | Last hour: 0

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Terremoto en Ecuador: 480 muertos y 2.000 desaparecidosWed, 20 Apr 2016 01:32:00 +0200.

El fuerte terremoto de 7,8 grados en la escala abierta de Richter que azotó el sábado el norte de la región costera de Ecuador continúa cobrando la vida de cientos de personas. [ACTUALIZACIÓN 19/04/2016 A LAS 15:30 PM] El Gobierno de Ecuad
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Earthquakes recorded in Pacific regionWed, 20 Apr 2016 01:26:00 +0200.

Update: 11:02AM SOME earthquakes were recorded in the Pacific region last night and early this morning. At 10:43pm yesterday, a 5.0 magnitude earthquake was recorded at a depth of 48 kilometres, 332 kilometres south-southwest from Nukuni vi
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National › Nationwide achievement tests held for 10th year since reviv ... Wed, 20 Apr 2016 01:20:00 +0200.

TOKYO. The education ministry held achievement tests at elementary and junior high schools nationwide Tuesday, marking 10 years since the tests were reinstated despite concerns in some quarters that they encourage excessive competition. Rou
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),