M 4.7 in Iran, Islamic Republic of on 10 May 2015 22:08 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 1054449
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 2 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.65 , 49.93
Event Date: 10 May 2015 22:08 UTC
11 May 2015 02:38 Local
Exposed Population:
3477268 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 May 2015 23:48 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0.1 0.1
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=441321 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: 505 | About casualties: 18 | Last hour: 0

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[Letter] Preparing for disastersThu, 14 May 2015 21:03:00 +0200.

Preparing for disasters. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) fully supports the development of “A community for disaster science” (M. McNutt, Editorial, 3 April, p. 11 ). Almost 2 years ago, we created the NIH Di
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Head of Japan's Miyagi prefecture thanks Taiwan fo...Thu, 14 May 2015 19:02:00 +0200.

Taipei, May 14 (CNA) The governor of Japan's Miyagi Prefecture, Yoshihiro Murai, is visiting Taiwan to promote bilateral exchanges and express gratitude for Taiwan's assistance in the wake of a powerful earthquake that struck northeastern J
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Un tsunami de chatarra electrónica en ÁfricaThu, 14 May 2015 18:54:00 +0200.

Televisores que arrojan vapor, neveras que se incendian y ríos contaminados son parte del panorama rutinario en Agbogbloshie, un barrio de Accra, la gran metrópoli de Ghana . Esa zona se ha transformado en un símbolo de las consecuencias de
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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),