M 5.1 in Iran, Islamic Republic of on 05 Apr 2017 20:07 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 1109497
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.7887 , 60.4269
Event Date: 05 Apr 2017 20:07 UTC
06 Apr 2017 00:37 Local
Exposed Population:
570000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Apr 2017 22:27 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 0.8 0.8
us10008er2 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 316 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

إسبان يحذرون من تسونامي ضخم قرب سواحل المغربSun, 09 Apr 2017 19:42:00 +0200.

قال علماء إسبان، إن إسبانيا والمغرب وبعض دول شمال إفريقيا، معرضون أكثر من أي وقت مضى لتسونامي قاتل في الفترة المقبلة. ونشرت صحف بريطانية وإسبانية الخبر، إذ نقلت تصريحا لعالم يدعى تي شيس، قال إن بركانا سينفجر في جزر الكاناري، القريبة من السا
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Red Cross weather cam is up and runningSun, 09 Apr 2017 19:04:00 +0200.

(Press Release) — In Dec. 2016, a powerful earthquake hit the Solomon Islands with a magnitude close to 8 on the rector scale. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued alerts throughout the Pacific Islands in Oceania. Among the islands not
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Unnamed fault stirs Batangas tremblorSun, 09 Apr 2017 18:42:00 +0200.

Erlinton Olevere, an agency’s science and research specialist, said the fault is still unnamed. “This is different from the West Valley Fault. We can see a fault at the Mabini Peninsula moving. As of now, it still has no specific name,” he
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Le nuvole cadono dal cielo: incredibile effetto atmosfericoSun, 09 Apr 2017 17:54:00 +0200.

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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),