5.7 Quake hit Afghanistan 11:21:11 PM UTC

[RodISHI]

There was another earthquake today.

5.7 Earthquake in Afghanistan

By: GDACS

Feb. 27, 2010 - On 2/27/2010 1111 PM UTC an earthquake of magnitude 5.7 and depth 80km has struck an highly populated area in the Takhar Province (population: 0.6 million) in Afghanistan. GDACS estimates the likelihood for need of international humanitarian intervention to be medium (Orange alert).

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact since the affected region is highly populated and has low resilience for natural disasters.

The earthquake 182km from the city of Kabol. The nearest populated places are Aspogh (8km), Aylaq-e Abanich (2km), Khujo (8km), Adipas (12km), Mian Shahr (17km). It is a mountainous region with a maximum altitude of 6516 m.

Potentially affected critical infrastructure:

* Nuclear plants: [None]
* Hydrodams: Kabul (167km)
* Airports: Jalalabad (182km), Kabul International (177km), Bagram (137km), Chitral (158km), Kunduz (126km), Ishkashim (163km), Taluqan (97km), Khojaghar (135km), Faizabad (131km), Pyandzh / Amu Darya (164km), Dusti (195km), Parkhar South (174km), Moskovskiy / Pyandzh Southwest (187km), Moskovskiy / Pyandzh (186km), Iol (195km)
* Ports: [None]

Earthquake Event Characteristics

* Source: European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) M
* Magnitude: 5.7 M
* Depth: 80 km
* Location (Lat/Long): 36 | 70.05
* Country: Afghanistan
* Province: Takhar
* Region: Afghanistan
* UTC/GMT (Greenwich time): 2/27/2010 1111 PM
* Estimated local solar time: 2/28/2010 4:01:23 AM

The earthquake occurred at 4h local time. At this time a day, more people are at home and therefore more vulnerable to collapsing residential buildings. During traffic hours, people can be affected by collapsing bridges and other road infrastructure.

Getting there and away

 

[Luissa]

With all these larger earthquakes, I wonder what volcano is going to go??? Hopefully it won't be Rainer.

 

[Avatar4321]

Wow. another earthquake half way around the world.