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Damage analysis by settlement and surface displacement of the 7th October 2023 Hirat earthquake

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Damage analysis by settlement and surface displacement of the 7th October 2023 Hirat earthquake
Description
**UNOSAT code EQ20231008AFG, GDACS Id: 1394952** This map illustrates the level of damage induced by the 07 October earthquake (M6.3) in settlements North and North-West Herat as observed from very high-resolution images Pléiades acquired on 09 October 2023. UNOSAT has analysed 4 areas for a total of 750km² and detected 56 affected settlements, amongst which 38 are moderately affected, 3 severely affected and 15 are almost destroyed. The map illustrates also the coseismic surface displacement interferogram related with the 7 October 2023 earthquake as deduced using a pair of SAR images acquired on 07 Oct. 2023 and 25 Sep. 2023. Narrow fringes translate a higher surface displacement. This is a preliminary analysis and has not yet been validated in the field. Please send ground feedback to the United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT).
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UN Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT)
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Humanitarian Data Exchange
Temporal Coverage
2023-10-10
Date Issued
2023-10-11
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Date Added
August 23, 2025
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The metadata for this resource was last retrieved from Humanitarian Data Exchange on 2026-01-15.

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    UN Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) (2023). Damage analysis by settlement and surface displacement of the 7th October 2023 Hirat earthquake. Humanitarian Data Exchange. https://data.humdata.org/dataset/27ef9566-2db5-4017-b880-74bcdc0dbaba (dataset)
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