M 4.7 in Iran, Islamic Republic of on 21 Jul 2017 07:42 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 1117495
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 40 Km
Lat/Lon: 31.52 , 49.02
Event Date: 21 Jul 2017 07:42 UTC
21 Jul 2017 12:12 Local
Exposed Population:
2730000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Jul 2017 09:40 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Islamic Republic of Iran)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0.1 0.1
606595 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),