M 5.4 in Iran-Iraq Border Region on 22 Aug 2014 20:06 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 1038457
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 20.65 Km
Lat/Lon: 33.8 , 45.77
Event Date: 22 Aug 2014 20:06 UTC
23 Aug 2014 00:36 Local
Exposed Population:
1258760 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Aug 2014 20:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.4 0
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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 480 | About casualties: 17 | Last hour: 0

4Tue, 26 Aug 2014 19:11:00 +0200.

The earthquake and tsunami may have been an act of nature. The decision to build a nuclear plant on a major fault line and not plan for, install, and maintain security measures that would be able to handle a worse case scenario to be blame
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Interview à Mme Brigitte Adjamagbo Kafui sur la candidtaure unique de ... Tue, 26 Aug 2014 18:54:00 +0200.

Togo - " Nous allons arriver à la candidature unique. Et je vous assure que ça va créer une dynamique...elle aura l’effet d’un véritable tsunami", Mme Adjamagbo de la CDPA. Décidément, la Coalition Arc-en-ciel fait de cette question de la c
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Police officer cleared of misconduct by having sex with a suspect in a ... Tue, 26 Aug 2014 18:38:00 +0200.

Custody sergeant Richard Evans, 46, was also found not guilty of accused of sexually assaulting two other women while on duty
California espera la llegada del gran terremotoTue, 26 Aug 2014 17:33:00 +0200.

La mayoría de los terremotos que se producen en la costa Oeste de Estados Unidos tienen su origen en la falla de San Andrés, la fractura natural que actúa como línea divisoria entre las dos placas tectónicas del Pacífico. Durante el último
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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),