M 4.8 in Islamic Republic of Iran on 14 Dec 2021 21:23 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 1301652
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 34.95 Km
Lat/Lon: 32.3886 , 49.7893
Event Date: 14 Dec 2021 21:23 UTC
15 Dec 2021 00:53 Local
Exposed Population:
1.3 million in 100km
Inserted at: 14 Dec 2021 21:59 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Islamic Republic of Iran)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gc9g Scaled population (vector) 5.77  
  C1 earthquake 1.29  
  C2 earthquake 0.26  
  Country Vulnerability 0.55  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),