M 4.6 in Islamic Republic of Iran on 19 Jan 2022 06:05 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 1306579
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.5084 , 50.6501
Event Date: 19 Jan 2022 06:05 UTC
19 Jan 2022 09:35 Local
Exposed Population:
1.3 million in 100km
Inserted at: 19 Jan 2022 07:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Islamic Republic of Iran)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us7000gd3t Scaled population (vector) 6.11  
  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: 312 | About casualties: 15 | Last hour: 0

Tongan eruption: 85% of the population impacted - government2022-01-23T05:52+0100.

Almost 85 percent of the country's population of about 105,000 people has been affected by last weekend's volcanic eruption and tsunami, the Tongan government said. It shared more details about the impact of the twin disasters in a statemen
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Tongan eruption: 85% of the population impacted - government2022-01-23T05:47+0100.

Almost 85 percent of the country's population of about 105,000 people has been affected by last weekend's volcanic eruption and tsunami, the Tongan government said. It shared more details about the impact of the twin disasters in a statemen
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Tongan eruption: 85% of the population impacted - government2022-01-23T05:42+0100.

Almost 85 percent of the country's population of about 105,000 people has been affected by last weekend's volcanic eruption and tsunami, the Tongan government said. It shared more details about the impact of the twin disasters in a statemen
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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),