[HOT] Fw: [CrisisMappers] Reuters reporting magnitude 8 earthquake in Iran

[Mikel Maron]

Here's the USGS summary
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000g7x7#summary


And the area in OSM. It's very remote.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=28.107&lon=62.053&zoom=15&layers=M


The closest town is Khash.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=28.2239&lon=61.2234&zoom=12&layers=M

 
Bing imagery is good over the region. Besides geometries, there do seem to be some kind of local mappers adding POI.

No reports on the impact yet, though seems like relatively low? Since it's within Iran, wouldn't expect there to be an international humanitarian response. News reports mention Iranian Red Crescent involvement, not sure if there's a relationship with Red Cross (Robert?).

My sense is that we can monitor, improve the geometries over Khash, could attempt to reach out to Iranian mappers. Probably not a huge amount for us to do?

* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron


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