M 5 in Islamic Republic of Iran on 26 Oct 2020 21:34 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 1241007
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 32.1316 , 56.0348
Event Date: 26 Oct 2020 21:34 UTC
27 Oct 2020 01:04 Local
Exposed Population:
About 81000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Oct 2020 21:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Islamic Republic of Iran)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000cdjs Scaled population (vector) 4.83  
  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

Articles: 4 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Condolences pour in after quake shakes TurkeyFri, 30 Oct 2020 20:24:00 +0100.

ANKARA. Condolences poured in from countries around the world after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake on Friday jolted Turkey's Aegean region. Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Grlic Radman in a phone call to his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusogl
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FM Zarif sympathizes with Turkish counterpart on deadly quakeFri, 30 Oct 2020 19:05:00 +0100.

TEHRAN, Oct. 30 (MNA) –Iranian Foreign Minister in a message to his Turkish counterpart sympathized with him over the occurrence of devastating earthquake in Turkey’s Izmir city on Friday. Following the tragic earthquake in Izmir, Iranian
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This Day In History - October 21Wed, 21 Oct 2020 07:39:00 +0200.

Today is the 295th day of 2020. There are 71 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT. 1967: Tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters march in Washington, DC. OTHER EVENTS. 1797: The US Navy frigate Constitution, also known as Old Ironsi
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Indonesia: Rebuilding lives two years after the devastating earthquake ... Mon, 28 Sep 2020 11:13:00 +0200.

Rusmiati and her youngest daughter were at home when a series of powerful earthquakes struck north-western Indonesia. “My daughter and I were selling yellow rice when the earthquake struck, while my husband and my old son were still working
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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),