M 5.3 in Iran on 12 Jan 2013 03:25 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 121906
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 9 Km
Lat/Lon: 31.93 , 51.07
Event Date: 12 Jan 2013 03:25 UTC
12 Jan 2013 06:55 Local
Exposed Population:
2960000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Jan 2013 03:52 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
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 300 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

TSUNAMI AND THE WORLD 2: Restoration alone is meaningless: strategic s ... Wed, 16 Jan 2013 03:07:00 +0100.

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TSUNAMI AND THE WORLD 4: French president of Chanel Japan pens novel a ... Wed, 16 Jan 2013 03:07:00 +0100.

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TSUNAMI AND THE WORLD 1: Misawa pier becomes slimy celebrity on Oregon ... Wed, 16 Jan 2013 03:07:00 +0100.

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Personality Influences Life After PresidencyWed, 16 Jan 2013 02:40:00 +0100.

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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),