M 4.9 in Iran, Islamic Republic of on 17 Jul 2018 03:58 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 1150451
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.5897 , 57.0342
Event Date: 17 Jul 2018 03:58 UTC
17 Jul 2018 08:28 Local
Exposed Population:
1010000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Jul 2018 04:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Turkmenistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Turkmenistan= 6.1; Islamic Republic of Iran= 4.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
us2000g6t5 Scaled population (vector) 6.18  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.12  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 9 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Iran (Islamic Republic of): Red Crescent Responds to North Khorasan Ea ... Thu, 19 Jul 2018 07:02:00 +0200.

BOJNOURD, July 18 (IRCS) _ Red Crescent has provided emergency shelter for 30 rural earthquake-affected households in Sankhast City, the northeastern Province of North Khorasan. A magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck Sankhast city in Jajarm Coun
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Under pressure from US, Japan's Shinzo Abe 'cancels Iran trip'Sat, 07 Jul 2018 10:13:00 +0200.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has reportedly canceled a trip to Iran. He would have been the first Japanese leader to visit Tehran in 40 years, but he chooses the US security umbrella over the need to secure oil supplies. As Deutsche Welle writ
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Japan's PM Shinzo Abe 'cancels Iran trip' Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ha ... Sat, 07 Jul 2018 05:01:00 +0200.

Japanese Prime Minister Abe canceled a scheduled visit to Tehran next week, apparently in response to pressure from the US on countries around the world to isolate Iran and squeeze its oil exports, Japan's Kyodo News cited government source
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Japan's PM Shinzo Abe 'cancels Iran trip' Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ha ... Sat, 07 Jul 2018 04:08:00 +0200.

Japanese Prime Minister Abe canceled a scheduled visit to Tehran next week, apparently in response to pressure from the US on countries around the world to isolate Iran and squeeze its oil exports, Japan's Kyodo News cited government source
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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),