Overall Green Earthquake in Iran, Islamic Republic of on 06 Jan 2017 02:33 UTC

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M 5.3 in Iran, Islamic Republic of on 06 Jan 2017 02:33 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 1102624
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.3M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	28.2049 , 53.1159
Event Date:	06 Jan 2017 02:33 UTC 06 Jan 2017 06:03 Local
Exposed Population:	About 8000 people in MMI 740000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	06 Jan 2017 02:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	4.6 (Islamic Republic of Iran)

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.3		0.3
us10007rjn	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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