M 5 in Iran, Islamic Republic of on 05 May 2015 21:28 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 1053905
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.2918 , 58.4853
Event Date: 05 May 2015 21:28 UTC
06 May 2015 01:58 Local
Exposed Population:
696062 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 May 2015 21:49 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
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: 430 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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Servicio Geológico Nacional imparte taller a autoridades de Sto Dgo Oe ... Sat, 09 May 2015 04:47:00 +0200.

El objetivo de la intervención fue conocer los mecanismos de Prevención, Mitigación y Respuesta (PMR) que tiene este municipio de acuerdo a la Ley 147-02. SANTO DOMINGO.- En el marco del proyecto “Amenaza Sísmica y Vulnerabilidad Física del
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Sacude potente sismo Islas Salomón y Papúa Nueva GuineaSat, 09 May 2015 04:47:00 +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),