M 5.1 in Afghanistan on 28 Mar 2024 10:55 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 1421515
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 106.2 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.2506 , 71.1753
Event Date: 28 Mar 2024 10:55 UTC
28 Mar 2024 15:25 Local
Exposed Population:
190 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 28 Mar 2024 11:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.5 (Afghanistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Afghanistan= 7.5; Pakistan= 5.7

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000m8ib Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

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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),