M 5.2 in Afghanistan on 31 Aug 2025 23:46 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 1498357
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Glide number: EQ-2025-000153-AFG
Depth: 10.9 Km
Lat/Lon: 34.6626 , 70.7106
Event Date: 31 Aug 2025 23:46 UTC
01 Sep 2025 04:16 Local
Exposed Population:
9 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 01 Sep 2025 22:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.5 (Afghanistan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000qsx4 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

China Has Allocated $7Mln to Afghanistan to Eliminate Consequences of .. 9/4/2025 11:30:00 PM.

MOSCOW, September 5 (RIA Novosti) - China has allocated 50 million yuan ($7 million) to Afghanistan to eliminate the consequences of the earthquake, the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA) said. "At the request of Afg
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6.2-magnitude quake hits southeastern Afghanistan: GFZ 9/4/2025 11:05:00 PM.

BEIJING, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 jolted southeastern Afghanistan at 1656 GMT on Thursday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10 km, was initially determined
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6.2-magnitude quake hits southeastern Afghanistan: GFZ 9/4/2025 11:01:00 PM.

BEIJING, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 jolted southeastern Afghanistan at 1656 GMT on Thursday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10 km, was initially determined
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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),