M 5.6 in Afghanistan on 02 Feb 2019 12:04 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 1169546
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 211.13 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.4944 , 70.6954
Event Date: 02 Feb 2019 12:04 UTC
02 Feb 2019 16:34 Local
Exposed Population: 1060000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Feb 2019 12:21 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 0.5 0.5
us2000jcds Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.29  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 30 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Press releasesWed, 06 Feb 2019 04:39:00 +0100.

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Mega-earthquake to hit India, Afghanistan due to critical lunar geomet ... Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:47:00 +0100.

Frank Hoogerbeets, the self-proclaimed earthquake researcher is now a known name among geologists. Through his website ' Ditrianum ', Hoogerbeets used to predict earthquakes, and interestingly, quakes have jolted various parts of the globe
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This Day in History | 1998 4,000 feared dead in Afghan earthquakeMon, 04 Feb 2019 01:39:00 +0100.

An earthquake in northern Afghanistan has left thousands dead, injured or homeless. The earthquake is centred on the city of Rostaq in the remote province of Takhar, close to the border with Tajikistan. A spokesman for the Northern Alliance
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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),