M 4.8 in Iran on 18 Apr 2013 10:39 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 124151
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.4354 , 45.4565
Event Date: 18 Apr 2013 10:39 UTC
18 Apr 2013 15:09 Local
Exposed Population:
2770000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Apr 2013 11:16 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
usb000gac8 Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),