M 4.1 in Iran on 05 Sep 2012 09:33 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 119335
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.1M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 38.47 , 46.92
Event Date: 05 Sep 2012 09:33 UTC
05 Sep 2012 14:03 Local
Exposed Population:
2550000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Sep 2012 11:21 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0.5 0.5
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 311 | About casualties: 23 | Last hour: 0

Tensions set to cloud APEC summitWed, 05 Sep 2012 12:24:00 +0200.

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia: Asia-Pacific leaders gather in Russia's far east this weekend for talks aimed at promoting trade but territorial disputes and other regional tensions may cloud the event.
Japan to help US, Canada with tsunami debrisWed, 05 Sep 2012 12:01:00 +0200.

Japan will draw up a plan to help the United States and Canada with debris along their Pacific coasts, as it looks to pay back support received after last year s tsunami, officials said Wednesday.
Google may face 'tsunami of litigation'Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:00:00 +0200.

GOOGLE could be facing a 'tsunami of litigation' according to the head of Foundem, a British search engine company.
Patriarch Kirill hopes visit to Japan facilitates RF-Japanese contactsWed, 05 Sep 2012 11:30:00 +0200.

He said the visit to Japan scheduled for September 14-18 would have a positive impact on relations between the peoples and countries

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),