M 4.6 in Iran, Islamic Republic of on 28 Sep 2014 00:00 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 1040534
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 40 Km
Lat/Lon: 32.66 , 47.58
Event Date: 28 Sep 2014 00:00 UTC
28 Sep 2014 03:30 Local
Exposed Population:
1447091 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Sep 2014 07:27 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0 0
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=401787 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 203 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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Changes at Pacific Tsunami Warning CentreWed, 01 Oct 2014 18:36:00 +0200.

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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),