M 5.8 in Iran, Islamic Republic of on 13 May 2017 18:01 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 1112906
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 12.45 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.8531 , 57.2677
Event Date: 13 May 2017 18:01 UTC
13 May 2017 22:31 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI VII
910000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 May 2017 18:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Turkmenistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Turkmenistan= 6.1; Islamic Republic of Iran= 4.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
us10008s7b Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 205 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Iran (Islamic Republic of): Iranian Red Crescent ends quake rescue ope ... Wed, 17 May 2017 17:45:00 +0200.

Dr. Seyed Amir Mohsen Ziaee, President of the Iranian Red Crescent visited the earthquake affected areas in North Khorasan and said that Red Crescent was immediately on the scene in the first hours of the earthquake and provided relief assi
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38 Atom-Befürworter spielen mit Katastrophen-Ängsten «Vulkan legt Sola ... Wed, 17 May 2017 16:43:00 +0200.

Nein, ein Witz finde ich das nicht. Ich finde, man sollte auch die Gefahr eines Vulkanausbruches einberechnen, genau so wie alle andern Gefahren. Einen grossen Unterschied zu einem Unfall in einem Atomreaktor gibt es aber schon: Bei einem V
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4 Atom-Befürworter spielen mit Katastrophen-Ängsten «Vulkan legt Solar ... Wed, 17 May 2017 15:42:00 +0200.

Das Märchen zeugt vom Respekt und der Anerkennung gegenüber den Kernenergiegegnern: Diese erzählten vor 6 Jahren das Märchen vom Fukushima-Tsunami in Mühleberg... Höchstwahrscheinlich wird es kein Vulkanausbruch mit derart Gravierenden Folg
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L’influenza del “Grande Perturbatore” e gli Eventi Meteo estremi sulla ... Wed, 17 May 2017 15:21:00 +0200.

Ormai sono anni e anni che Nibiru è diventato un argomento sempre più controverso per i teorici della cospirazione e ricercatori della verità. Una cosa importante va detta: “Il governo ha occultato con la complicità dei media la verità sul
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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Daily Maps:

16/May/2017 03:54 UTC

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),