M 4.9 in Iran, Islamic Republic of on 26 Aug 2014 04:11 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 1038672
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 32.78 , 47.87
Event Date: 26 Aug 2014 04:11 UTC
26 Aug 2014 08:41 Local
Exposed Population:
1558327 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Aug 2014 06:39 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0.1 0.1
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=396942 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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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),