M 5 in Islamic Republic of Iran on 31 Aug 2020 03:36 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 1232448
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.8326 , 53.1812
Event Date: 31 Aug 2020 03:36 UTC
31 Aug 2020 08:06 Local
Exposed Population:
810000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Aug 2020 03:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Islamic Republic of Iran)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us7000bf5e Scaled population (vector) 5.69  
  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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 9 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Why Aceh is a rare place of welcome for Rohingya refugeesTue, 25 Aug 2020 08:12:00 +0200.

In late June 2020, 99 Rohingya asylum seekers arrived by boat on the coast of the Indonesian province of Aceh, having been stranded at sea for more than 120 days. As authorities deliberated about whether to allow the asylum seekers to disem
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MIL-OSI Global: Why Aceh is a rare place of welcome for Rohingya refug ... Tue, 25 Aug 2020 08:08:00 +0200.

– By Max Walden, PhD Candidate at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. In late June 2020, 99 Rohingya asylum seekers arrived by boat on the coast of the Indonesian province of Aceh, having been stranded at sea for more than 120 da
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Why Israel-UAE deal doesn't merit the hypeMon, 17 Aug 2020 23:06:00 +0200.

Aug 17, 2020. Republicans and Democrats have hailed the Israel-UAE normalization agreement, with some observers going so far as to call it a geopolitical earthquake . But does the agreement merit the hype? One way to look at the question is
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On This Day, Aug. 17: Earthquake in Turkey kills 17,000Mon, 17 Aug 2020 09:53:00 +0200.

In 1987, Rudolf Hess, Hitler's former deputy, was found strangled in Berlin's Spandau Prison. He was 93. In 1996, the Reform Party nominated Texas businessman Ross Perot for president. He would go on to lose the 1996 general election with 1
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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),