M 4.7 in Iran, Islamic Republic of on 17 Oct 2017 18:52 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 1124101
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 20.75 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.7834 , 57.3214
Event Date: 17 Oct 2017 18:52 UTC
17 Oct 2017 22:22 Local
Exposed Population:
950000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Oct 2017 22:11 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 0
us1000atfn Scaled population (vector) 6.04  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.12  
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AP PHOTOS: A selection of pictures from the past weekSat, 21 Oct 2017 10:55:00 +0200.

Somalis carry the body of a man killed in a blast in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017. The explosion from a truck bomb is the country's deadliest attack with over 300 killed, and Somalia's president is expected to a
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AP PHOTOS: A selection of pictures from the past weekSat, 21 Oct 2017 10:55:00 +0200.

Somalis carry the body of a man killed in a blast in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017. The explosion from a truck bomb is the country's deadliest attack with over 300 killed, and Somalia's president is expected to a
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AP PHOTOS: A selection of pictures from the past weekSat, 21 Oct 2017 10:41:00 +0200.

Somalis carry the body of a man killed in a blast in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017. The explosion from a truck bomb is the country's deadliest attack with over 300 killed, and Somalia's president is expected to a
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AP PHOTOS: A selection of pictures from the past weekSat, 21 Oct 2017 10:20:00 +0200.

Somalis carry the body of a man killed in a blast in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017. The explosion from a truck bomb is the country's deadliest attack with over 300 killed, and Somalia's president is expected to a
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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),