M 4.5 in Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan on 22 Nov 2020 16:23 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 1244747
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 140.38 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.088 , 70.1875
Event Date: 22 Nov 2020 16:23 UTC
22 Nov 2020 20:53 Local
Exposed Population:
1270000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Nov 2020 16:50 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.5 (Afghanistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Afghanistan= 7.5; Pakistan= 5.7

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000crh5 Scaled population (vector) 5.8  
  C1 earthquake 1.5  
  C2 earthquake 0.07  
  Country Vulnerability 0.45  
  INFORM_normalised 1.29  
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Earthquake hits Hindu Kush region in AfghanistanSat, 14 Nov 2020 07:54:00 +0100.

Earthquake in Afghanistan's Hindu Kush region measured at 6.3 richter scale, depth 190 km - Indian weather office. Agencies via Xinhua. Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimed
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),