M 4.8 in Afghanistan on 14 Dec 2021 22:17 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 1301665
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.5405 , 69.9472
Event Date: 14 Dec 2021 22:17 UTC
15 Dec 2021 03:17 Local
Exposed Population:
3.3 million in 100km
Inserted at: 14 Dec 2021 22:59 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.5 (Afghanistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Afghanistan= 7.5; Tajikistan= 5.1

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.7 0.7
us6000gc9v Scaled population (vector) 6.53  
  C1 earthquake 1.5  
  C2 earthquake 0.07  
  Country Vulnerability 0.45  
  INFORM_normalised 1.29  
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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),