M 5.7 in Afghanistan on 19 Apr 2025 06:47 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 1477914
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 98 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.1759 , 71.2019
Event Date: 19 Apr 2025 06:47 UTC
19 Apr 2025 11:17 Local
Exposed Population: 1.1 million in MMI IV
Inserted at: 19 Apr 2025 12:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.5 (Afghanistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Afghanistan= 7.5; Pakistan= 5.7

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000q76g Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Will Pakistan face another earthquake soon? 4/20/2025 12:02:00 PM.

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Earthquake of magnitude 5.8 strikes Afghanistan-Tajikistan border 4/20/2025 11:09:00 AM.

NNA - An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border on Saturday, German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 92 km (57 miles), GFZ said. --- Reuters.
5.9 magnitude tremor jolts Lahore, Islamabad and other parts of countr.. 4/20/2025 3:26:00 AM.

Tremors were felt in several parts of the country, including Lahore, Islamabad and Rawalpindi, on Saturday. Reports said a 5.9 magnitude earthquake shook Lahore, Islamabad, Murree, Peshawar, Lower Dir, Bajaur and Malakand. Several parts of
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5.9-magnitude quake jolts KP, parts of Punjab 4/20/2025 2:25:00 AM.

ISLAMABAD: A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck parts of Pakistan on Saturday morning, causing panic across major cities including Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, and several areas of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab, reports Geo News. T
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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), USGS (5), WMO (1), INFORM (2),