M 4.7 in Afghanistan on 18 May 2017 10:26 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 1113281
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 212.32 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.5733 , 70.1641
Event Date: 18 May 2017 10:26 UTC
18 May 2017 14:56 Local
Exposed Population:
1630000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 May 2017 10:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.5 (Afghanistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Afghanistan= 7.5; Tajikistan= 5.1

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.7 -0.7
us10008t9s Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),