M 5.5 in Iran, Islamic Republic of on 19 Apr 2018 06:34 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 1140715
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 28.3587 , 51.6184
Event Date: 19 Apr 2018 06:34 UTC
19 Apr 2018 11:04 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI VII
610000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Apr 2018 06:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Islamic Republic of Iran)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.6 0.6
us1000dngn Scaled population (vector) 1.34  
  C1 shakemap 0.11  
  C2 shakemap 0.4  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),