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Green Earthquake alert in Iran on 17/09/2012 02:13 UTC
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Media coverage of this event

Media analysis

  • Articles: 93
  • Articles about casualties: 1 (1.1%)
  • Articles in last hour: 0

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The headlines below have been automatically extracted by the Europe Media Monitor.

Mentioning 'Iran'

Half-timbered homes provide earthquake protection in Iran
Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:29:00 +0200   deutschewelle-en (en)

German professor Georg Pegels believes half-timbered houses - like the medieval homes tourists come to see in the German countryside - can save lives in earthquake prone regions. He told DW about his plans for Iran .

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Taiwan makes donation to Iran quake relief efforts
Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:45:00 +0200   focustaiwan (en)

Taipei, Sept. 20 (CNA) Taiwan's government donated US$150,000 worth of supplies to assist earthquake victims in Iran , the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thursday, expressing the hope that the victims could reconstruct their homes as soon as possible. Two strong earthquakes, with magnitudes of 6.4 and 6.

People and organisations: Red Cross 

Iran to pay gratuitous loans to quake hit families
Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:58:00 +0200   trendnews-az (en)

The Iran ian government has approved the payment of five million rials (some $410) in gratuitous loans to each family whose property was damaged during the 6.4-magnitude earthquake which rocked the north-western city of Ahar on August 11, the Mehr news agency quoted First Vice-President Mohammad-Reza Rahimi as saying.

People and organisations: Interior Ministry  Mohammad Reza  Mostafa Mohammad Najjar  Mostafa Mohammad Najjar  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 

Iran (Islamic Republic of): Iran: Earthquake - Information Bulletin n° 09
Wed, 19 Sep 2012 02:50:00 +0200   reliefWeb (en)

Source: IFRC Country: Iran (Islamic Republic of) Summary : A twin Earthquakes measuring 6.2 and 6 on the Richter scale shook north-western Iran, East Azerbaijan province on 11 August 2012. As per Tehran University’s Seismological Centre, The epicentre of the first earthquake was Owrang village....

People and organisations: Ali Al-Abad  Tehran University  Islamic Republic 

Another strong quake hits Iran
Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:42:00 +0200   trendnews-az (en)

Earthquakes measuring 4.6 on Richter scale took place in the Jam city in Iran ian Bushehr Province this morning, Fars news agency reported.

People and organisations: Fars News Agency  Tehran University 

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Social media analysis

Experimental feature

The information below is extracted by an experimental JRC system to analyze Twitter messages for the occurance of secondary effects for earthquakes and tsunamis. This feature is currently not available for other disaser types.

Twitter reaction

The graph above shows the number of tweets per minute just before and just after the earthquake. The higher the values and the larger the difference between before and after, the more the earthquake was felt by the local population. Note that after 20 to 30 minutes, many tweets will come from areas not near the earthquake. These indicate general interest in this event rather than local impact.

Tweets mentioning secondary effects

The graph above shows tweets for keywords related to common secondary effects. A large difference between tweets counts before and after the event for any of these keywords is a good indication that the secondary effect occurred.