Overall Orange Earthquake in Islamic Republic of Iran on 25 Jun 2022 03:37 UTC

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M 5.6 in Islamic Republic of Iran on 25 Jun 2022 03:37 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 1328006
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.6M
Glide number:	EQ-2022-000237-IRN
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	26.7253 , 54.2613
Event Date:	25 Jun 2022 03:37 UTC 25 Jun 2022 08:07 Local
Exposed Population:	About 3000 people in MMI 3 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at:	25 Jun 2022 03:58 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	4.6 (Islamic Republic of Iran)

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	1		1
us7000hk3w	Scaled population (raster)	2.48
	C1 shakemap	0.11
	C2 shakemap	0.4
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0.94

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Iran - Earthquake (ECHO 27 Jun 2022)Mon, 27 Jun 2022 14:02

An earthquake of 5.6 M at a depth of 10 km occurred in Bandar Lengeh County (Hormozgan Province, southern Iran) on 25 June at 3.37 UTC (8.07 local time). The epicentre was located very close to Bandar Charak City (Hormozgan Province) and 30 km north-east of Kish Island.
USGS PAGER estimates that up to 4,000 people were exposed to very strong shaking and 5,000 people to strong shaking.
According to media reports, at least one person has died, while dozens have been injured.
Several earthquakes struck Hormozgan Province over the past few days with the highest of 5.5 M registered on 15 June.

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),

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