M 4.7 in Azerbaijan on 17 Dec 2018 10:03 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 1165509
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.5115 , 49.5237
Event Date: 17 Dec 2018 10:03 UTC
17 Dec 2018 13:03 Local
Exposed Population:
900000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Dec 2018 11:08 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.7 (Azerbaijan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Azerbaijan= 4.7; Islamic Republic of Iran= 4.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000iue2 Scaled population (vector) 5.41  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.95  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 13 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Earthquake occurs near Turkey’s Aegean coastThu, 20 Dec 2018 09:37:00 +0100.

Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 20. By Rufiz Hafizoglu - Trend: An earthquake with a 4.3 magnitude occurred near Turkey’s Aegean coast at 07:55 (GMT + 3), Trend reports citing the Turkish media on Dec. 20. The epicenter was at a depth of 33 kilomete
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Earthquake shakes Turkey’s south-western provinceSat, 15 Dec 2018 14:19:00 +0100.

Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 15. By Rufiz Hafizoglu – Trend: An earthquake with a 3.9 magnitude occurred in Turkey’s south-western Bursa province at 12:26 (GMT + 3), Trend reports citing the Turkish media on Dec. 15. The epicenter was at a depth
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Thirty years after Armenian earthquake, a New Yorker remembers his res ... Fri, 07 Dec 2018 18:07:00 +0100.

After the earthquake. (C.J. Langer/U.S. Geological Survey) When a magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit his hometown, Gyumri, on December 7, 1988, 14-year-old Ara Tadevossian’s apartment building collapsed on top of him and his mother. He was trappe
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Earthquake shakes Turkey’s south-western provinceFri, 07 Dec 2018 09:29:00 +0100.

Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 7. By Rufiz Hafizoglu – Trend: An earthquake with a 4.3 magnitude occurred in Turkey’s south-western Mugla province at 09:25 (GMT + 3), Trend reports citing the Turkish media on Dec. 7. The epicenter was at a depth of
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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), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),