M 4.8 in Azerbaijan on 28 Jun 2024 03:43 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 1435004
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.7416 , 48.49
Event Date: 28 Jun 2024 03:43 UTC
28 Jun 2024 07:43 Local
Exposed Population:
10 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 28 Jun 2024 04:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.7 (Azerbaijan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Azerbaijan= 4.7; Islamic Republic of Iran= 4.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000n8tc Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),