M 5.3 in Iran on 06 Sep 2012 01:57 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 119356
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 30 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.18 , 54.04
Event Date: 06 Sep 2012 01:57 UTC
06 Sep 2012 06:27 Local
Exposed Population:
360000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Sep 2012 04:35 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.
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Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 338 | About casualties: 40 | Last hour: 0

Powerful quake hits Costa Rica, no deathsThu, 06 Sep 2012 06:33:00 +0200.

Thu, 6 Sep 2012 02:17 GMT Source: reuters // Reuters * Biggest quake to hit Costa Rica in more than 20 years * Entire hospital evacuated, quake damages buildings and roads By Isabella Cota SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Costa Rica
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Levantan alerta de tsunamia en el PacíficoThu, 06 Sep 2012 06:27:00 +0200.

Se levantó la alerta de tsunami en el Oceáno Pacífico emitido a causa del terremoto que sacudió el miércoles a Costa Rica. El centro de alertas de tsunamis en el Pacífico inicialmente retiró la alerta en la zona del Caribe tras el sismo. A
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Alarma por réplicas tras terremoto en Costa Rica , El Diario de Hoy, E ... Thu, 06 Sep 2012 06:19:00 +0200.

Un temblor de magnitud 4.2 sacudió el Pacífico salvadoreño sin víctimas ni daños
Un terremoto de 7,6 grados sacude Costa RicaThu, 06 Sep 2012 06:15:00 +0200.

Al menos una persona fallecida por un infarto , dos desaparecidas y daños materiales, además de una alerta de tsunami desde Estados Unidos, pero descartada en Centroamérica, ha causado este miércoles un seísmo de magnitud 7,6 en la escala d
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),