M 5.6 in Pakistan on 12 Aug 2020 22:40 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 1229976
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 13.15 Km
Lat/Lon: 28.0478 , 65.9911
Event Date: 12 Aug 2020 22:40 UTC
13 Aug 2020 03:40 Local
Exposed Population: About 6000 people in MMI
680000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Aug 2020 00:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.7 (Pakistan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000bdq8 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -3.12  
  C2 shakemap 1.16  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.07  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),