M 4.5 in Afghanistan on 18 Jul 2020 21:14 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 1226884
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 80.22 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.3602 , 70.7494
Event Date: 18 Jul 2020 21:14 UTC
19 Jul 2020 01:44 Local
Exposed Population:
2540000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.5 (Afghanistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Afghanistan= 7.5; Pakistan= 5.7

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000aqzx Scaled population (vector) 6  
  C1 earthquake 1.5  
  C2 earthquake 0.07  
  Country Vulnerability 0.45  
  INFORM_normalised 1.29  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 9 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Book on earthquake resistance of historical structures hits storesMon, 20 Jul 2020 20:26:00 +0200.

TEHRAN – A book containing 13 scientific papers on earthquake resistance of historical structures has recently been published, introducing ways to maximize the protection of potentially vulnerable structures. Compiled by Iranian researcher
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Piedmont’s Lantern Projects continues doing lots with littleTue, 14 Jul 2020 22:53:00 +0200.

Lantern Projects founder Gail Uilkema has no favorites among the nonprofit humanitarian aid organization’s approximately 415 charitable projects. Reaching communities from more than 60 countries in the 17 years since its inception and with
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Xinhua Photos of the Day (July 13)Mon, 13 Jul 2020 13:55:00 +0200.

BEIJING, July 13 (Xinhua) -- The world in the past 24hrs. A selection of the best daily press photos from Xinhua. Woman volunteers carry mung bean soup for armed policemen to cool down in hot weather in Jiangjialing Village, Poyang Town of
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Xinhua Photos of the Day (July 13)Mon, 13 Jul 2020 09:41:00 +0200.

BEIJING, July 13 (Xinhua) -- The world in the past 24hrs. A selection of the best daily press photos from Xinhua. Woman volunteers carry mung bean soup for armed policemen to cool down in hot weather in Jiangjialing Village, Poyang Town of
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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),