M 5 in Islamic Republic of Iran on 23 May 2024 17:07 UTC

Hazard models

Rapid Impact
Shakemap
Tsunami

Event summary

This earthquake is expected to have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10.9 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.2079 , 53.6687
Event Date: 23 May 2024 17:07 UTC
23 May 2024 20:37 Local
Exposed Population:
9 thousand in MMI VI
Source: NEIC us6000n0iw
Inserted at: 23 May 2024 17:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score: 4.6 (Islamic Republic of Iran)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us6000n0iw Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0.11  
  C2 rapid impact 0.4  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

The green area correspond to areas affected by strong shaking (MMI VI or higher) according to the simulation.


Episode Timeline

IDAlertScoreDateMag, DepthMMI*Population**Tsunami risk***Delay (hh:mm)Source
1572694 0.1 23 May 2024 17:07 5M, 10.9km 6.13 N/A (in MMI>=VII) N/A 00:25 NEIC
The episode that generated the alert; the next major evaluations beyond 12 hours will not trigger additional alerts.
The episode that has the last updated information.
* The max MMI detected for sources having shakemaps;
** The population detected in MMI>=7 for episode with shakemap or in a 100km radius;
*** The tsunami max height.

Rapid Impact

The results presented below are calculated with the ShakeMap open source software (USGS) using only earthquake hypocenter information to provide a rapid estimation of the ground motion and shaking intensity without taking into account any instrumental observations or earthquake source scaling laws.

Exposed population

The earthquake happened in Islamic Republic of Iran ,of Fars (population 4,146,405) . The alertlevel for this event is GREEN

Intensity Population
9100 people
7100 people

Affected Provinces

Intensity Region Province Country Population
Fars Islamic Republic of Iran 3700 people
Fars Islamic Republic of Iran 12000 people
Hormozgan Islamic Republic of Iran <1000 people
Fars Islamic Republic of Iran 14000 people
Hormozgan Islamic Republic of Iran 8400 people

Affected populated places. Areas of interest

Intensity Name Region Province Country City class Population Distance
Eshkanan Fars Iran Village - 7 km
Paghelat Fars Iran Village - 9 km
Khargu Hormozgan Iran Village - 17 km
Beyram Fars Iran Village - 29 km

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Critical infrastructure

Airports, ports, nuclear plants and hydrodams at risk, if affected, are listed below.

More information

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