M 4.8 in Iran, Islamic Republic of on 17 Jan 2017 10:41 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 1103410
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 29.6 , 51.497
Event Date: 17 Jan 2017 10:41 UTC
17 Jan 2017 14:11 Local
Exposed Population:
930000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Jan 2017 11:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Islamic Republic of Iran)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us10007tpm Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Maltempo e terremoto, Fiorini e Mancini (Lega): 'La presidente Marini ... Sat, 21 Jan 2017 10:03:00 +0100.

PERUGIA – “La presidente della Giunta Regionale, Catiuscia Marini, riferisca in Aula circa la situazione creatasi nei territori della Valnerina e in quelli già particolarmente colpiti dallo sciame sismico dei mesi di agosto ed ottobre 2016,
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Four more survivors from Italian hotelSat, 21 Jan 2017 09:46:00 +0100.

Four more people have been pulled alive from the wreckage of a luxury hotel that was demolished on Wednesday by a deadly avalanche, bringing the number of survivors to nine, the national fire service says. The two men and two women were ex
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),