Overall Green Earthquake alert in Afghanistan on 04 Sep 2025 05:10 UTC

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M 4.7 in Afghanistan on 04 Sep 2025 05:10 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 1498831
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Glide number:	EQ-2025-000156-AFG
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	34.4603 , 70.5979
Event Date:	04 Sep 2025 05:10 UTC 04 Sep 2025 09:40 Local
Exposed Population:	2 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at:	04 Sep 2025 05:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	7.5 (Afghanistan)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000qtq5	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 rapid impact	0
	C2 rapid impact	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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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),

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