M 7.5 in Afghanistan on 26 Oct 2015 09:09 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a high humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1070251
Earthquake Magnitude: 7.5M
Depth: 212.52 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.4406 , 70.7167
Event Date: 26 Oct 2015 09:09 UTC
26 Oct 2015 13:39 Local
Exposed Population: 600000 people in MMI
930000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Oct 2015 09:45 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 3.7 3.7
us10003re5 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 511 | About casualties: 87 | Last hour: 0

Operazione "Tsunami" dei carabinieriMon, 02 Nov 2015 08:58:00 +0100.

Roma, 2 nov. (askanews) - Con l'operazione "Tsunami" i carabinieri nelle province di Viterbo e Roma hanno eseguito 21 ordinanze di custodia cautelari agli arresti domiciliari - emesse dal Gip del Tribunale di Viterbo - nei confronti di altr
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Afghanistan: Afghanistan: Common Operating Picture - Earthquakes repor ... Mon, 02 Nov 2015 08:29:00 +0100.

An earthquake with magnitude 7.5 occurred near Feyzabad, Afghanistan at 09:09:32.70 UTC on Oct 26, 2015 Alert area: 45 miles (72 km) S of Feyzabad, Afghanistan; 81 miles (131 km) WNW of Chitral, Pakistan; 87 miles (140 km) SSW of Khorugh, T
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Afghanistan: Afghanistan: Common Operating Picture - Earthquake assess ... Mon, 02 Nov 2015 08:29:00 +0100.

Afghanistan: Common Operating Picture - Earthquake assessment and response - Initial reported families and families assessed and eligible at 29 October 2015. Informing humanitarians worldwide. A service provided by ReliefWeb has been the l
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Roma, 2 nov. (askanews) - Con l'operazione "Tsunami" i carabinieri nel ... Mon, 02 Nov 2015 08:13:00 +0100.

Roma, 2 nov. (askanews) - Con l'operazione "Tsunami" i carabinieri nelle province di Viterbo e Roma hanno eseguito 21 ordinanze di custodia cautelari agli arresti domiciliari - emesse dal Gip del Tribunale di Viterbo - nei confronti di altr
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), USGS (5), WMO (1), INFORM (2),