M 5.1 in Iran on 14 Jun 2020 18:06 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 1222251
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10.85 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.792 , 53.382
Event Date: 14 Jun 2020 18:06 UTC
14 Jun 2020 22:36 Local
Exposed Population:
860000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Jun 2020 18:23 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Islamic Republic of Iran)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
us6000abr2 Scaled population (vector) 5.81  
  C1 earthquake 1.29  
  C2 earthquake 0.26  
  Country Vulnerability 0.55  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 46 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Urgent: 5.1-magnitude earthquake hits southern IranMon, 15 Jun 2020 12:08:00 +0200.

TEHRAN, June 14 (Xinhua) -- A 5.1-magnitude earthquake hit Beiram region in Iran's southern Fars province on Sunday, according to Iran's Seismological Center. More sources 5.1-magnitude earthquake hits southern Iran (Xinhua News Agency: 20
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5.1-magnitude earthquake hits southern IranMon, 15 Jun 2020 10:56:00 +0200.

A 5.1-magnitude earthquake hit Beiram region in Iran's southern Fars province on Sunday, according to Iran's Seismological Center. The epicenter of the earthquake, which took place at 22:35 p.m. local time (1805 GMT), was at the depth of 16
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5.1-magnitude earthquake hits southern IranMon, 15 Jun 2020 03:36:00 +0200.

A 5.1-magnitude earthquake hit Beiram region in Iran's southern Fars province on Sunday, according to Iran's Seismological Center. The epicenter of the earthquake, which took place at 22:35 p.m. local time (1805 GMT), was at the depth of 16
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5.1-magnitude earthquake hits southern Iran, no casualtiesMon, 15 Jun 2020 02:19:00 +0200.

TEHRAN, June 14 (Xinhua) -- A 5.1-magnitude earthquake hit Beiram region in Iran's southern Fars province on Sunday, according to Iran's Seismological Center. The epicenter of the earthquake, which took place at 22:35 p.m. local time (1805
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),