M 4.9 in Iraq on 11 Mar 2013 14:57 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 123217
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 36.66 , 43.55
Event Date: 11 Mar 2013 14:57 UTC
11 Mar 2013 17:57 Local
Exposed Population:
3460000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Mar 2013 17:50 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0.5 0.5
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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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 (40), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),