M 5.3 in Iran on 15 Aug 2012 17:49 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 118897
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 38.4028 , 46.6866
Event Date: 15 Aug 2012 17:49 UTC
15 Aug 2012 22:19 Local
Exposed Population:
2620000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Aug 2012 18:18 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
usc000c0lq Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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),