M 4.9 in Islamic Republic of Iran on 29 Sep 2020 04:08 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 1237309
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 31.3924 , 51.0596
Event Date: 29 Sep 2020 04:08 UTC
29 Sep 2020 07:38 Local
Exposed Population:
1270000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Sep 2020 23:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Islamic Republic of Iran)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.4 0.4
us6000c2ea Scaled population (vector) 6.18  
  C1 earthquake 1.29  
  C2 earthquake 0.26  
  Country Vulnerability 0.55  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),