M 5.9 in Islamic Republic of Iran on 28 Jan 2023 18:14 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 1356352
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Glide number: EQ-2023-000009-IRN
Depth: 16 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.4239 , 44.9091
Event Date: 28 Jan 2023 18:14 UTC
28 Jan 2023 21:44 Local
Exposed Population: 20 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 31 Jan 2023 16:52 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Islamic Republic of Iran)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 1.2 1.2
us6000jk0t Scaled population (raster) 3.09  
  C1 shakemap 0.11  
  C2 shakemap 0.4  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Meteo assessment
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M5.9 in Islamic Republic of Iran - EC/ECHO daily mapMon, 30 Jan 2023 18:15

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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),