M 4.5 in Iran, Islamic Republic of from 22 May 2018 00:31 UTC to 00:31

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1143762
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 34.8611 , 45.7984
Event Date: 22 May 2018 00:31 UTC
22 May 2018 03:31 Local
Exposed Population:
2790000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 May 2018 00:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.9 (Iraq)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Iraq= 6.9; Islamic Republic of Iran= 4.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000e9mv Scaled population (vector) 6.24  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.21  
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Latest media headlines

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Trump has sent an earthquake through the Middle East by pulling out of ... Wed, 09 May 2018 04:04:00 +0200.

It was well telegraphed in advance but that didn't make the punch of the US withdrawal from the Iran deal any less powerful. President Donald Trump has just sent an earthquake though the Middle East and risked alienating key European allies
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),