M 4.5 in Iran, Islamic Republic of on 02 Jan 2014 10:50 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 1022047
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10.49 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.1488 , 54.3122
Event Date: 02 Jan 2014 10:50 UTC
02 Jan 2014 14:20 Local
Exposed Population:
363753 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Jan 2014 11:29 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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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), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),