M 4.9 in Afghanistan on 15 Jan 2014 15:44 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 1023635
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 102.63 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.4638 , 71.3362
Event Date: 15 Jan 2014 15:44 UTC
15 Jan 2014 20:14 Local
Exposed Population:
617491 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Jan 2014 16:38 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.5 -0.5
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Meteo assessment
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),