M 5 in Iran on 01 Jul 2012 02:49 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 117840
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 31.69 , 51
Event Date: 01 Jul 2012 02:49 UTC
01 Jul 2012 07:19 Local
Exposed Population:
1460000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Jul 2012 03:56 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0.5 0.5
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

Leaders' Salary Gap Widens 7/5/2012 2:12:00 AM.

Already the best-paid elected leader of a Group of 20 nation, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard just got another raise—putting her salary 25% ahead of Barack Obama's and about twice David Cameron's.
Japan Diet to publish Fukushima disaster probe 7/5/2012 1:13:00 AM.

TOKYO: A Japanese parliament probe into the nuclear disaster at Fukushima is expected to say the then prime minister fanned chaos in the opening days of the crisis when it publishes its final report Thursday.
More than sixty countries renew commitments to boost disaster risk red.. 7/5/2012 12:44:00 AM.

(4 July 2012, Sendai, Japan) The World Ministerial Conference on Disaster Reduction , organized by Japan and the United Nations, concluded today, calling for increased investment in disaster preparedness and recovery. The Conference and its
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Japan Diet to publish Fukushima disaster probe 7/4/2012 11:57:00 PM.

A Japanese parliament probe into the nuclear disaster at Fukushima is expected to say the then prime minister fanned chaos in the opening days of the crisis when it publishes its final report Thursday. The Diet's Fukushima Nuclear Accident
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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 (40), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),