M 4.5 in Afghanistan on 11 Aug 2018 05:21 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 1153315
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 115.75 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.4927 , 70.9417
Event Date: 11 Aug 2018 05:21 UTC
11 Aug 2018 09:51 Local
Exposed Population:
950000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Aug 2018 07:13 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 0
us1000g6sp Scaled population (vector) 5.81  
  C1 earthquake 1.5  
  C2 earthquake 0.07  
  Country Vulnerability 0.45  
  INFORM_normalised 1.29  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 35 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Pakistan: Asia and the Pacific: Weekly Regional Humanitarian Snapshot ... Tue, 14 Aug 2018 14:27:00 +0200.

PAKISTAN. As of 6 August, 67 people had been killed, 128 injured and 222 houses damaged due to flooding as a result of heavy rains between 20 June and 5 August. Heavy rains, the overflow of water channels and high winds caused most of the d
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US gas prices riseMon, 13 Aug 2018 07:06:00 +0200.

. CAMARILLO, Calif. The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline has risen 2 cents a gallon over the past two weeks, to $2.93. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey says that’s 53 cents a gallon higher than at this tim
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The 'activist architects' working in the world's worst disaster zonesThu, 09 Aug 2018 05:43:00 +0200.

The children in Dien Ban, in Vietnam, are paying for a war before their time. They were born with disabilities blamed on Agent Orange, the herbicide and defoliant used by American forces during the war. "Their lives were relegated to the ba
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The 'activist architects' working in the world's worst disaster zonesThu, 09 Aug 2018 05:00:00 +0200.

The children in Dien Ban, in Vietnam, are paying for a war before their time. They were born with disabilities blamed on Agent Orange, the herbicide and defoliant used by American forces during the war. "Their lives were relegated to the ba
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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),