M 5.5 in Pakistan on 17 Oct 2025 12:15 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 1505660
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.7821 , 72.7604
Event Date: 17 Oct 2025 12:15 UTC
17 Oct 2025 17:15 Local
Exposed Population: 4 thousand in MMI&>=V
Inserted at: 17 Oct 2025 12:35 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
us6000rhs3 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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),