M 5.8 in Afghanistan on 03 Apr 2026 16:12 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 1533026
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 186.4 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.5479 , 70.852
Event Date: 03 Apr 2026 16:12 UTC
03 Apr 2026 20:42 Local
Exposed Population: 12.7 million in MMI III
Inserted at: 03 Apr 2026 16:29 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.5 (Afghanistan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000smda 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, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),