M 4.5 in Iraq on 10 Jan 2022 18:29 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 1305365
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.5088 , 44.8992
Event Date: 10 Jan 2022 18:29 UTC
10 Jan 2022 21:29 Local
Exposed Population:
4.7 million in 100km
Inserted at: 10 Jan 2022 23:59 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.9 (Iraq)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Iraq= 6.9; Islamic Republic of Iran= 4.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.4 0.4
us7000gamy Scaled population (vector) 6.86  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.21  
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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), INFORM (2), USGS (2),