Overall Red Earthquake alert in Afghanistan on 26 Oct 2015 09:09 UTC

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M 7.5 in Afghanistan on 26 Oct 2015 09:09 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a high humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 1070251
Earthquake Magnitude:	7.5M
Depth:	212.52 Km
Lat/Lon:	36.4406 , 70.7167
Event Date:	26 Oct 2015 09:09 UTC 26 Oct 2015 13:39 Local
Exposed Population:	600000 people in MMI 930000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	26 Oct 2015 09:45 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	3.7		3.7
us10003re5	Scaled population (vector)	n.a
	C1 earthquake	n.a
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

Virtual OSOCC

Meteo assessment

Satellite products

Analytical products

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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Analytical products

Daily Maps: Afghanistan, Pakistan - Earthquake

29/Oct/2015 06:12 UTC

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), USGS (5), WMO (1), INFORM (2),

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