M 5.4 in Islamic Republic of Iran on 21 Jun 2022 21:09 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 1327561
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.2431 , 53.2853
Event Date: 21 Jun 2022 21:09 UTC
22 Jun 2022 01:39 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI VII
Few people affected (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 01 Jul 2022 06:50 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Islamic Republic of Iran)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.6 0.6
us7000hj3x Scaled population (raster) 1.34  
  C1 shakemap 0.11  
  C2 shakemap 0.4  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 104 | About casualties: 57 | Last hour: 0

Paktika residents injured in earthquake evacuated2022-06-25T19:46+0200.

PAKTIKA (TOLOnews): Some residents of Paktika who were injured in the earthquake that has affected the southeast provinces have been evacuated to Khost province. The medical teams have been treating the wounded at Khost airport. The acting
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Sergei Surovikin, who is the general (accused of corruption and brutal ... 2022-06-25T19:01+0200.

Earthquake at the top of the Armed forces in the service of Vladimir Putin. Since the beginning of June, the Russian high command has removed numerous generals from operational command roles, including the commander of the airborne forces (
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US sanctions hinder humanitarian aid to quake-hit Afghanistan2022-06-25T17:01+0200.

TEHRAN, Jun. 25 (MNA) – The acting interior minister of the Taliban says that countries can not send their humanitarian aid to earthquake-hit people of Afghanistan because of the US sanctions. Aljazeera quoted Sirajuddin Haqqani, the actin
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Iran pioneer in helping Afghan earthquake victims2022-06-25T15:48+0200.

TEHRAN – The Islamic Republic of Iran has been at the forefront of sending humanitarian aid to the earthquake victims in Afghanistan, so the fourth shipment of humanitarian aid was dispatched to the country on Saturday. This shipment includ
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),