M 4.6 in Afghanistan on 12 Jun 2017 13:54 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 1114821
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 77.96 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.3511 , 71.1755
Event Date: 12 Jun 2017 13:54 UTC
12 Jun 2017 18:24 Local
Exposed Population:
520000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Jun 2017 15:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.5 (Afghanistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Afghanistan= 7.5; Pakistan= 5.7; Tajikistan= 5.1

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.9 -0.9
us20009lyd Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),