Overall Green Earthquake alert in Islamic Republic of Iran on 24 Mar 2023 03:16 UTC

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M 5.6 in Islamic Republic of Iran on 24 Mar 2023 03:16 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 1366392
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.6M
Depth:	17.884 Km
Lat/Lon:	38.462 , 44.8446
Event Date:	24 Mar 2023 03:16 UTC 24 Mar 2023 07:46 Local
Exposed Population:	220 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at:	24 Mar 2023 03:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	4.6 (Islamic Republic of Iran)

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0.1		0.1
us7000jmbi	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 shakemap	0.11
	C2 shakemap	0.4
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0.94

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Iran - Earthquake (ECHO 24 Mar 2023)Fri, 24 Mar 2023 10:48

An earthquake of 5.6 M at a depth of 18 km occurred in the far north-western Iran, near the border with Türkiye, on 24 March at 3:16 UTC (7:46 local time). The epicentre was located approximately 11 km south-west of the Khoy City (West Azerbaijan Province) and 45 km east of the border with far eastern Türkiye.
USGS PAGER estimates that up to 196,000 people were exposed to strong shaking and up to 301,000 people to moderate shaking.
Media report, as of 24 March, a number of damaged houses across villages nearby the epicentre, while there are no report of damaged houses across the Khoy City. The earthquake was felt also across the neighbouring Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (southern Azerbaijan, bordering with northern Iran).
The same area already suffered from a 5.9 magnitude earthquake on 28 January and two 5.8 magnitude earthquakes, respectively, on 18 January 2023 and in October 2022.

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