M 4.5 in Iran, Islamic Republic of on 21 Sep 2017 19:28 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 1122022
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.689 , 57.3957
Event Date: 21 Sep 2017 19:28 UTC
21 Sep 2017 23:58 Local
Exposed Population:
910000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Sep 2017 22:23 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Islamic Republic of Iran)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000asq8 Scaled population (vector) 5.65  
  C1 earthquake 1.29  
  C2 earthquake 0.26  
  Country Vulnerability 0.55  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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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),