M 6.6 in Afghanistan on 10 Apr 2016 10:28 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 1084073
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.6M
Depth: 210.42 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.492 , 71.1563
Event Date: 10 Apr 2016 10:28 UTC
10 Apr 2016 14:58 Local
Exposed Population: 760000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Apr 2016 10:51 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 2.2 2.2
us20005gsg 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.
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), USGS (5), WMO (1), INFORM (2),