M 4.7 in Iran, Islamic Republic of on 22 Jan 2017 06:47 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 1103790
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 32.74 , 49.88
Event Date: 22 Jan 2017 06:47 UTC
22 Jan 2017 10:17 Local
Exposed Population:
830000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Jan 2017 08:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Islamic Republic of Iran)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0 0
561806 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 668 | About casualties: 2 | 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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),