M 5.9 in Afghanistan on 16 Oct 2024 18:56 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 1449653
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 203.4 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.5608 , 70.5904
Event Date: 16 Oct 2024 18:56 UTC
16 Oct 2024 23:26 Local
Exposed Population: 1.4 million in MMI IV
Inserted at: 16 Oct 2024 19:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.5 (Afghanistan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000nz5n Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),