M 4.6 in Islamic Republic of Iran on 03 Aug 2020 11:37 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 1228695
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.6877 , 52.5406
Event Date: 03 Aug 2020 11:37 UTC
03 Aug 2020 16:07 Local
Exposed Population:
580000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Aug 2020 11:58 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Islamic Republic of Iran)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000b8pa Scaled population (vector) 6.02  
  C1 earthquake 1.29  
  C2 earthquake 0.26  
  Country Vulnerability 0.55  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 10 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

I Live In Beirut. Our City Is On It's Knees, But We Will Not Buckle We ... Fri, 07 Aug 2020 07:20:00 +0200.

We were convinced it was an earthquake. Suddenly, as I was having my evening coffee at home with my wife and our four-year-old daughter, it was as though someone had grabbed our building and was shaking it with their hands. A split second l
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4.5-magnitude earthquake hits south Iran, no casualties reportedTue, 04 Aug 2020 10:30:00 +0200.

4.5-magnitude earthquake hits south Iran, no casualties reported. – A 4.5-magnitude earthquake hit Jam County in southern Iranian Bushehr province at 4:07 p.m. local time (11:37 GMT) on Monday, according to Iran’s Seismological Center. The
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4.5-magnitude earthquake hits south Iran, no casualties reportedMon, 03 Aug 2020 22:26:00 +0200.

TEHRAN, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- A 4.5-magnitude earthquake hit Jam County in southern Iranian Bushehr province at 4:07 p.m. local time (11:37 GMT) on Monday, according to Iran's Seismological Center. The epicenter of the earthquake, with a depth
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4.5-magnitude earthquake hits south Iran, no casualties reportedMon, 03 Aug 2020 19:00:00 +0200.

4.5-magnitude earthquake hits south Iran, no casualties reported. A 4.5-magnitude earthquake hit Jam County in southern Iranian Bushehr province at 4:07 p.m. local time (11:37 GMT) on Monday, according to Iran’s Seismological Center. The e
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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),