M 4.5 in Afghanistan on 12 Dec 2016 11:14 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 1100684
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 93.84 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.2343 , 70.4287
Event Date: 12 Dec 2016 11:14 UTC
12 Dec 2016 15:44 Local
Exposed Population:
802069 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Dec 2016 11:49 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us2000805v 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

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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),