M 4.5 in Islamic Republic of Iran on 28 Jul 2020 06:06 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 1227909
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.9243 , 57.0594
Event Date: 28 Jul 2020 06:06 UTC
28 Jul 2020 10:36 Local
Exposed Population:
940000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Jul 2020 07:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Islamic Republic of Iran)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000b559 Scaled population (vector) 5.83  
  C1 earthquake 1.29  
  C2 earthquake 0.26  
  Country Vulnerability 0.55  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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MIL-OSI Asia-Pac: World News in Brief: July 27Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:58:00 +0200.

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Hagia Sophia: A historical perspectiveMon, 20 Jul 2020 04:29:00 +0200.

Hagia Sophia, once Christendom’s greatest church, which was converted into a mosque under the Ottomans before becoming a museum in the 20th Century, has now been reinstated as a mosque. My family and I have visited Hagia Sophia and were im
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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),