M 4.8 in Afghanistan on 29 Jun 2022 04:30 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 1328471
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 207.15 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.4388 , 70.7669
Event Date: 29 Jun 2022 04:30 UTC
29 Jun 2022 09:00 Local
Exposed Population:
1.2 million in MMI III
Inserted at: 29 Jun 2022 04:53 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.5 (Afghanistan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000hl0x Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 797 | About casualties: 73 | Last hour: 0

Explained | How are earthquakes measured?2022-07-02T21:53+0200.

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The Star » Earthquake kills five near southern Iran Coast2022-07-02T20:19+0200.

At least five people have been killed and more than 50 injured by a powerful earthquake and aftershocks in Iran's southern province of Hormozgan. The quake struck at 02:00 local time on Saturday (21:30 GMT Friday) near the coast, 100km (60
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Earthquake kills five near southern Iran Coast2022-07-02T20:18+0200.

At least five people have been killed and more than 50 injured by a powerful earthquake and aftershocks in Iran's southern province of Hormozgan. The quake struck at 02:00 local time on Saturday (21:30 GMT Friday) near the coast, 100km (60
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Committee formed for transparent aid distribution2022-07-02T18:08+0200.

KABUL (TOLOnews): A committee was formed to provide the transparent distribution of aid to people affected by recent natural disasters across Afghanistan, said the State Ministry of Disaster Management. This comes as Pakistan provided more
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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),