M 6.1 in Afghanistan on 31 Jan 2018 07:07 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 1132605
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 191.19 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.5432 , 70.8155
Event Date: 31 Jan 2018 07:07 UTC
31 Jan 2018 11:37 Local
Exposed Population: 1020000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Jan 2018 07:21 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
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000crmu Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 426 | About casualties: 46 | Last hour: 0

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(c) 2018, The Washington Post. The Trump administration's nominee to coordinate billions of dollars in assistance to migrants around the world has suggested in social media posts that Islam is an inherently violent religion and has said Chr
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PACIFIC TSUNAMI DEATH TOLL REACHES 113Sun, 04 Feb 2018 03:35:00 +0100.

American Samoa, Samoa, Tonga bear brunt. By Campbell Cooney and Kerrie Ritchie. MELBOURNE, Australia (Radio Australia, Oct. 1, 2009) – The death toll from a massive South Pacific earthquake and tsunami continues to rise. Hospital workers an
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Trump nominee to lead U.N. migration post called Muslims violent, Chri ... Sun, 04 Feb 2018 00:59:00 +0100.

The Trump administration’s nominee to coordinate billions of dollars in assistance to migrants around the world has suggested in social media posts that Islam is an inherently violent religion and has said Christians in some cases should re
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), USGS (5), WMO (1), INFORM (2),