M 5.3 in Afghanistan on 18 Apr 2026 02:54 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 1535982
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 198.8 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.6199 , 70.7871
Event Date: 18 Apr 2026 02:54 UTC
18 Apr 2026 07:24 Local
Exposed Population:
1.5 million in MMI III
Inserted at: 18 Apr 2026 03:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.5 (Afghanistan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000sr1e Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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),