M 4.6 in Azerbaijan on 26 May 2015 01:20 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 1055858
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 22 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.77 , 46.69
Event Date: 26 May 2015 01:20 UTC
26 May 2015 06:20 Local
Exposed Population:
2365309 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 May 2015 06:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0 0
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=443813 Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),