M 4.6 in Afghanistan on 01 Sep 2020 02:56 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 1232580
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 158.67 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.3366 , 71.0118
Event Date: 01 Sep 2020 02:56 UTC
01 Sep 2020 07:26 Local
Exposed Population:
860000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Sep 2020 03:07 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 0
us7000bfjf Scaled population (vector) 5.5  
  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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 8 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Unpacking the U.S.-Japan AllianceWed, 02 Sep 2020 17:23:00 +0200.

Forged in the wake of World War II, the U.S.-Japan security alliance is as important as ever to both countries’ interests in Asia. In recent years, a more assertive China, a nuclear-armed North Korea, and other challenges have pushed the al
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'Many people are still missing': Afghanistan families devastated by fl ... Tue, 01 Sep 2020 08:17:00 +0200.

K hoja Zada found his son around noon; his body was under layers of rubble and mud. The rain had stopped and the sun was shining again when the 70-year-old dug him out. At midnight, he buried him again. Less than a week after flash floods k
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Peter GillMon, 31 Aug 2020 05:21:00 +0200.

In Afghanistan and Iraq, Nepalis who are injured or killed while working for American contractors are often sent home with only token compensation, or none at all. Each year around the anniversary of the April and May 2015 earthquakes, the
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Afghanistan: Asia and the Pacific: Weekly Regional Humanitarian Snapsh ... Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:37:00 +0200.

AFGHANISTAN. From 13 to 23 August, fighting between Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) and a non-state armed group (NSAG) continued in Kunduz Province and reportedly resulted in the deaths of 17 civilians and 43 people being injured. Al
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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),