M 5.3 in Türkiye on 14 Jun 2012 05:52 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 117551
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.21 , 42.47
Event Date: 14 Jun 2012 05:52 UTC
14 Jun 2012 08:52 Local
Exposed Population:
1900000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Jun 2012 07:23 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0.5 0.5
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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 (40), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),