M 4.5 in Iran, Islamic Republic of on 14 Jan 2015 09:48 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 1046757
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 32.86 , 46.95
Event Date: 14 Jan 2015 09:48 UTC
14 Jan 2015 13:18 Local
Exposed Population:
687513 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Jan 2015 13:03 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0 0
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=422480 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 212 | About casualties: 26 | Last hour: 0

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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),