M 4.6 in Iran, Islamic Republic of on 22 Jul 2018 05:04 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 1151107
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.6248 , 54.8545
Event Date: 22 Jul 2018 05:04 UTC
22 Jul 2018 09:34 Local
Exposed Population:
420000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Jul 2018 05:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Islamic Republic of Iran)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000gb1c Scaled population (vector) 5.43  
  C1 earthquake 1.29  
  C2 earthquake 0.26  
  Country Vulnerability 0.55  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 15 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Turkmenistan sending humanitarian cargo to Iran after strong earthquak ... Tue, 24 Jul 2018 17:54:00 +0200.

Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, July 24. By Huseyn Hasanov - Trend: President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has signed an order according to which a number of ministries and organizations are ordered to donate humanitarian aid to the Is
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Iran (Islamic Republic of): Iran - Earthquake (GDACS, USGS, Media) (EC ... Mon, 23 Jul 2018 14:36:00 +0200.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 M at a depth of 5.7 km hit north-western Iran on 22 July at 10.07 UTC. The epicenter was located approximately 35 km north-east of Sarpol Zahab city (Kermanshah Province, close to the border with Iraq) and 88
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Iran (Islamic Republic of): IRCS responds to 5.9- magnitude earthuake ... Mon, 23 Jul 2018 06:28:00 +0200.

Kermanshah, July 22 (IRCS) _A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck today Tazeh Abad district, Salas-e Babajani County, in the western province of Kermanshah. Red Crescent teams rendered relief services to the victims. The quake hit the region at
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Quakes shake western, southern Iran - 07:45 23/07/2018Mon, 23 Jul 2018 05:40:00 +0200.

According to the Seismological Center of the Geophysics Institute of Tehran University, the tremor occurred at 5:29 hours local time (0:59 GMT) in an area located at 14 km of Tazeh Abad, 27 km of Javanrud and 36 km of Kuzaran and at the dep
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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),