M 4.7 in Iran-Iraq Border Region on 22 Aug 2014 17:55 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 1038447
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 33.62 , 45.7
Event Date: 22 Aug 2014 17:55 UTC
22 Aug 2014 20:55 Local
Exposed Population:
1379829 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Aug 2014 17:21 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0.1 0
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=396382 Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Strong quake hits remote area in southwest Iran 8/18/2014 6:55:00 AM.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),