M 5.9 in Afghanistan on 05 Jan 2023 14:25 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 1353200
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 193.786 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.4922 , 70.7018
Event Date: 05 Jan 2023 14:25 UTC
05 Jan 2023 18:55 Local
Exposed Population: 1.2 million in MMI IV
Inserted at: 05 Jan 2023 14:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.5 (Afghanistan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000j2b9 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),