M 4.5 in Iraq on 02 Aug 2013 01:10 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 1001128
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 2 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.79 , 43.24
Event Date: 02 Aug 2013 01:10 UTC
02 Aug 2013 04:10 Local
Exposed Population:
3590534 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Aug 2013 01:22 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0 0
328323 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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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),