M 4.5 in Iran, Islamic Republic of on 20 Jan 2017 22:58 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 1103703
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 29.6801 , 51.4836
Event Date: 20 Jan 2017 22:58 UTC
21 Jan 2017 02:28 Local
Exposed Population:
930000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Jan 2017 23:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Islamic Republic of Iran)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007uj7 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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في الدفاع عن العولمة بروجيكت سنديكيت 25-01-2017 على الرغم من التحديات ... Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:12:00 +0100.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),