M 5.2 in Afghanistan on 02 Sep 2025 12:29 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 1498567
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 34.6749 , 70.6807
Event Date: 02 Sep 2025 12:29 UTC
02 Sep 2025 16:59 Local
Exposed Population:
4 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 02 Sep 2025 12:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.5 (Afghanistan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000qt8u Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Afghan women left to die in earthquake due to Taliban gender restricti.. 9/6/2025 12:27:00 PM.

women were left to die following the country’s 6.6 magnitude earthquake because of Taliban rules forbidding unrelated men from having contact with them, The Telegraph has been told. The quake killed thousands of people and devastated homes
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US yet to approve any help following Afghanistan earthquake 9/6/2025 12:15:00 PM.

Nearly a week after an earthquake killed more than 2,200 people in Afghanistan and left tens of thousands homeless, the United States has not taken the first step to authorise emergency aid, and it was unclear if it plans to help at all, tw
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L''orrore In Afghanistan le donne sotto le macerie del terremoto non v.. 9/6/2025 11:56:00 AM.

Nemmeno il terremoto scuote la discriminazione di genere nel tormentato Afghanistan, che registra il più elevato tasso di emarginazione femminile al mondo. Frutto di consuetudini tribali a cui l’islam è stato piegato pur venendo sbandierato
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Bangladesh Sends Emergency Aid to Kunar Earthquake Survivors 9/6/2025 11:27:00 AM.

Bangladesh has flown emergency aid to Afghanistan’s Kunar province following a devastating earthquake, joining international relief efforts to assist thousands of survivors with urgent humanitarian needs. Bangladesh has delivered emergency
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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),