M 5.8 in Iran, Islamic Republic of on 13 May 2017 18:01 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 1112906
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 12.45 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.8531 , 57.2677
Event Date: 13 May 2017 18:01 UTC
13 May 2017 22:31 Local
Exposed Population: Less than 100 people in MMI VII
910000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 May 2017 18:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Turkmenistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Turkmenistan= 6.1; Islamic Republic of Iran= 4.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
us10008s7b Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Iran (Islamic Republic of): Iranian Red Crescent ends quake rescue ope.. 5/17/2017 5:45:00 PM.

Dr. Seyed Amir Mohsen Ziaee, President of the Iranian Red Crescent visited the earthquake affected areas in North Khorasan and said that Red Crescent was immediately on the scene in the first hours of the earthquake and provided relief assi
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Iran (Islamic Republic of): Iran - 5.8 Mw Earthquake - DG ECHO Daily M.. 5/17/2017 5:48:00 AM.

Situation An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 M at a depth of 12 km hit northern Iran on 13 May at 18.01 UTC. The epicenter was located approx. 42 km north north-west of Bojnurd city (North Khorasan province). USGS PAGER indicates shaking up to
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Iran (Islamic Republic of): Veep urges speeding up relief operation in.. 5/15/2017 1:15:00 AM.

Tehran, May 14, IRNA – First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri stressed the need for deployment of all resources to address problems of those left injured following the earthquake in the city of Pishqaleh in North Khorasan Province. Jahangiri
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Iran (Islamic Republic of): Iran: Red Crescent teams respond to 5.8 ma.. 5/15/2017 1:15:00 AM.

Last night at 22:31 local time, an earthquake magnitude of 5.8 jolted the outskirts of Bojnord, the capital of Iran’s North Khorasan Province. The epicentre of the shallow earthquake was just 22 kilometres from the provincial capital, with
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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Daily Maps:

16/May/2017 03:54 UTC

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),