M 4.7 in Iran, Islamic Republic of on 06 Dec 2017 05:53 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 1128096
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 34.82 , 45.71
Event Date: 06 Dec 2017 05:53 UTC
06 Dec 2017 08:53 Local
Exposed Population:
2790000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Dec 2017 07:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.9 (Iraq)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Iraq= 6.9; Islamic Republic of Iran= 4.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0.1 0.1
634322 Scaled population (vector) 6.29  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.21  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 528 | About casualties: 43 | Last hour: 0

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6.0 QUAKE JOLTS AM. SAMOA ON CHRISTMAS DAYWed, 06 Dec 2017 20:47:00 +0100.

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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),