M 4.6 in Iran on 17 Sep 2012 02:13 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 119658
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.97 , 52.45
Event Date: 17 Sep 2012 02:13 UTC
17 Sep 2012 06:43 Local
Exposed Population:
410000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Sep 2012 06:37 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 361 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

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Las matemáticas servirán para reconstruir un tsunami del año 1500Fri, 21 Sep 2012 01:04:00 +0200.

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Fertility trade: Eggs, sperm and rented wombsFri, 21 Sep 2012 00:37:00 +0200.

Also in demand is donated sperm. Figures suggest that 10% to 15% of all heterosexual couples have trouble conceiving and many single and gay women are also opting to have babies using donated sperm. One of the biggest exporters in the world
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Las matemáticas ayudarán a reconstruir un tsunami ocurrido el año 1500 ... Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:24:00 +0200.

Investigadores de la Universidad española de Málaga colaborarán con el departamento de Antropología de la Universidad de Boulder (Colorado, EE.UU.), para reconstruir, a partir de modelos matemáticos, el escenario de un tsunami que pudo prod
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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),