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Green Earthquake alert in Iran on 11/08/2012 15:43 UTC
GDACS Event Report - Summary

Summary

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This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the Magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

Updated: this report is based on update number 3.

  • Earthquake magnitude 5M and depth 10km
  • on 11/08/2012 15:43 UTC
  • 2560000 people within 100km

References

Known identifiers for this event: usb000burz (neicid)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1362 | About casualties: 307 | Last hour: 0

Azerbaijan Red Crescent Society starts donation campaign to render assistance to earthquake victims in Iran (PHOTO)
Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:26:00 +0200   trendnews-az (en)

Azerbaijan Red Crescent Society started donation campaign called “Let’s Be Helpful” with the aim to render assistance to the victims of earthquake occurred in Islamic Republic of Iran.

People and organisations: Red Crescent  Red Crescent Society  Islamic Republic 

Tsunamis : le nouveau centre d’alerte enfin opérationnel
Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:17:00 +0200   lindependant (fr)

Depuis juillet, le Centre d’alerte tsunami préconisé par le sénateur audois Roland Courteau surveille l’activité en Méditerranée, qui n’est pas à l’abri des risques.

People and organisations: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique  Roland Courteau  Socialist Party 

Turkish Red Crescent distributes relief rquipment in quake-hit Iran
Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:04:00 +0200   irishsun (en)

Turkish aid organization Turk Kizilayi (Red Crescent)begun distributing relief equipment to victims of devastating earthquake that recently hit Iran. Red Crescent Headquarters stated on Wednesday ...

People and organisations: Red Crescent 

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Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: NEIC (4), EMM (1), JRC (20), (1), WMO (1), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1),

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