M 4.9 in Iran on 09 Apr 2013 20:54 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 123776
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 28.24 , 51.69
Event Date: 09 Apr 2013 20:54 UTC
10 Apr 2013 01:24 Local
Exposed Population:
300000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Apr 2013 07:19 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.
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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 (40), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),