M 4.5 in Afghanistan on 04 Jun 2024 22:50 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 1431747
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.4767 , 69.0401
Event Date: 04 Jun 2024 22:50 UTC
05 Jun 2024 03:20 Local
Exposed Population:
210 thousand in MMI&>=IV
Inserted at: 04 Jun 2024 23:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.5 (Afghanistan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000mqcw Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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),