M 4.5 in Afghanistan on 03 Dec 2022 01:21 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 1348885
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 93.95 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.2666 , 71.2051
Event Date: 03 Dec 2022 01:21 UTC
03 Dec 2022 05:51 Local
Exposed Population:
6.7 million in MMI III
Inserted at: 03 Dec 2022 01:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.5 (Afghanistan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000j6hi Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

4.5 magnitude earthquake jolts parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 12/3/2022 5:49:00 AM.

An earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale jolted several cities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province including Peshawar in the wee hours of Saturday. People came out of their homes in panic and started reciting verses from the Holy Quran.
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),