M 5.5 in Iran on 09 Jun 2020 16:08 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 1221591
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.7722 , 53.3448
Event Date: 09 Jun 2020 16:08 UTC
09 Jun 2020 20:38 Local
Exposed Population: About 1000 people in MMI
870000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Jun 2020 16:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Islamic Republic of Iran)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.8 0.8
us6000a8lw Scaled population (raster) 1.99  
  C1 shakemap 0.11  
  C2 shakemap 0.4  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 35 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Hearer Of Silent Screams Worldwide: Turkish Red CrescentThu, 11 Jun 2020 09:38:00 +0200.

The Turkish Red Crescent has been providing help for the international community without having any discrimination based on language, religion, or race, and rushing to the help of people victimized by natural disasters, conflicts, and pover
...(more)
Hearer of silent screams worldwide: Turkish Red CrescentThu, 11 Jun 2020 09:30:00 +0200.

ANKARA The Turkish Red Crescent has been providing help for the international community without having any discrimination based on language, religion, or race, and rushing to the help of people victimized by natural disasters, conflicts, an
...(more)
Hearer of silent screams worldwide: Turkish Red CrescentThu, 11 Jun 2020 09:24:00 +0200.

The Turkish Red Crescent has been providing help for the international community without having any discrimination based on language, religion, or race, and rushing to the help of people victimized by natural disasters, conflicts, and pover
...(more)
Hearer of silent screams worldwide: Turkish Red CrescentThu, 11 Jun 2020 09:21:00 +0200.

ANKARA The Turkish Red Crescent has been providing help for the international community without having any discrimination based on language, religion, or race, and rushing to the help of people victimized by natural disasters, conflicts, an
...(more)

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),