M 5.1 in Afghanistan on 04 Sep 2022 21:57 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 1336253
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 34.6622 , 70.7017
Event Date: 04 Sep 2022 21:57 UTC
05 Sep 2022 02:27 Local
Exposed Population:
2 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 05 Sep 2022 14:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.5 (Afghanistan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
us7000i57m Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -1.86  
  C2 rapid impact 0.84  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 2.36  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),