M 4.8 in Islamic Republic of Iran on 11 Dec 2021 18:56 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 1301052
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.7716 , 56.8365
Event Date: 11 Dec 2021 18:56 UTC
11 Dec 2021 22:26 Local
Exposed Population:
1.2 million in 100km
Inserted at: 11 Dec 2021 20:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Islamic Republic of Iran)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
us6000gbgn Scaled population (vector) 6.02  
  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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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 (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),