M 5.2 in Pakistan on 27 Dec 2021 13:31 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 1303636
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 47.54 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.558 , 74.8289
Event Date: 27 Dec 2021 13:31 UTC
27 Dec 2021 18:31 Local
Exposed Population:
650 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 27 Dec 2021 13:50 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.7 (Pakistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Pakistan= 5.7; India= 4.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gflv Scaled population (vector) 5.77  
  C1 earthquake 2.1  
  C2 earthquake -0.9  
  Country Vulnerability 0.87  
  INFORM_normalised 1.07  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),