M 4.9 in Islamic Republic of Iran on 13 Jun 2020 22:04 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 1222141
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.7649 , 53.3793
Event Date: 13 Jun 2020 22:04 UTC
14 Jun 2020 02:34 Local
Exposed Population:
850000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Jun 2020 22:23 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Islamic Republic of Iran)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us6000abi5 Scaled population (vector) 5.8  
  C1 earthquake 1.29  
  C2 earthquake 0.26  
  Country Vulnerability 0.55  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 3 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Xinhua Middle East news summary at 2200 GMT, June 14Mon, 15 Jun 2020 01:48:00 +0200.

TEHRAN -- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday left for Turkey's Istanbul for talks on bilateral relations and international issues, official IRNA news agency reported. A high-ranking delegation accompanies Zarif during h
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Iran earthquake: Massive magnitude 5.7 quake hits Fars Province - Late ... Wed, 10 Jun 2020 04:56:00 +0200.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the tremor hit 10 kilometres beneath the surface. There have been no immediate reports regarding injuries to civilians or damage to buildings. Several people reported their experience of the t
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Earthquake, 300 km from Kuwait City recordedSat, 30 May 2020 04:17:00 +0200.

KUWAIT, May 29: The Kuwait National Seismic Network at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research recorded an earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale in west of the Islamic Republic of Iran, at 11:03 today (08:03 GMT), at a depth of
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),