M 4.5 in Iran on 28 Apr 2013 12:11 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 124315
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 9.9 Km
Lat/Lon: 26.8565 , 54.3996
Event Date: 28 Apr 2013 12:11 UTC
28 Apr 2013 16:41 Local
Exposed Population:
320000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Apr 2013 12:32 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
usb000gh0z 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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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),