M 5.2 in Southern Iran on 24 Oct 2014 12:38 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 1042004
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 45.52 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.83 , 57.3
Event Date: 24 Oct 2014 12:38 UTC
24 Oct 2014 16:08 Local
Exposed Population:
658672 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Oct 2014 13:03 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0
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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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), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),