M 4.6 in Iran, Islamic Republic of on 02 Mar 2015 06:08 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 1049439
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 1 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.64 , 48.97
Event Date: 02 Mar 2015 06:08 UTC
02 Mar 2015 09:38 Local
Exposed Population:
1228319 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Mar 2015 07:18 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0 0
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=429987 Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

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Así será el ensayo de sismoThu, 05 Mar 2015 08:51:00 +0100.

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Terremoto de 6,4 graus é registrado na costa de SumatraThu, 05 Mar 2015 08:28:00 +0100.

JACARTA - Um potente terremoto de magnitude 6,4 atingiu a Indonésia neste sábado (6) na costa de Sumatra, indicou o instituto geofísico americano (USGS). O epicentro do tremor foi localizado a 23 km de profundidade e 154 km a sudoeste de S
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Fukushima: GLOBAL 2000-Chronologie der Atom-KatastropheThu, 05 Mar 2015 08:07:00 +0100.

Vier Jahre nach den vier parallelen Super-GAUs in Japan – Status Quo der Aufräumarbeiten – Ausblick auf Herausforderungen. Wien (OTS) Am 11. März 2011 kam es nach dem Erdbeben und Tsunami im japanischen AKW Fukushima-Daiichi zum Ausfall der
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),