M 4.8 in Iran, Islamic Republic of on 19 Aug 2014 10:32 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 1038243
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 32.49 , 47.68
Event Date: 19 Aug 2014 10:32 UTC
19 Aug 2014 15:02 Local
Exposed Population:
1442109 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Aug 2014 13:48 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0.1 0.1
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=395810 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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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),