M 6.3 in Afghanistan on 25 Dec 2015 19:14 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 1076983
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 203.4 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.5002 , 71.1321
Event Date: 25 Dec 2015 19:14 UTC
25 Dec 2015 23:44 Local
Exposed Population: 790000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Dec 2015 20:12 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 1.7 1.7
us100049i1 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),