M 4.8 in Iran, Islamic Republic of on 05 Apr 2017 07:47 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 1109445
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.8188 , 60.4376
Event Date: 05 Apr 2017 07:47 UTC
05 Apr 2017 12:17 Local
Exposed Population:
570000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Apr 2017 08:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.5 (Afghanistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Afghanistan= 7.5; Turkmenistan= 6.1; Islamic Republic of Iran= 4.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.4 0.4
us10008eij 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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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),