M 4.7 in Iran, Islamic Republic of on 18 Aug 2014 21:44 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 1038195
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 6 Km
Lat/Lon: 32.45 , 47.58
Event Date: 18 Aug 2014 21:44 UTC
19 Aug 2014 02:14 Local
Exposed Population:
1464281 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Aug 2014 07:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0 0
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=395666 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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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 (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),