M 5.9 in Pakistan on 24 Sep 2013 11:36 UTC

Event summary

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

GDACS ID EQ 1006697
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 27.36 , 65.67
Event Date: 24 Sep 2013 11:36 UTC
24 Sep 2013 16:36 Local
Exposed Population:
321578 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Sep 2013 14:40 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 1.2 1.2
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=335680 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 (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),