M 6.3 in Iran, Islamic Republic of on 09 Apr 2013 11:52 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 1000522
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 28.48 , 51.58
Event Date: 09 Apr 2013 11:52 UTC
09 Apr 2013 16:22 Local
Exposed Population: 780000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Jul 2013 02:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Islamic Republic of Iran)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
EMSC 0.7 0 0.7
Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (77), (5), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),