M 4.7 in Türkiye on 03 Aug 2012 10:18 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 118511
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 5 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.71 , 28.03
Event Date: 03 Aug 2012 10:18 UTC
03 Aug 2012 13:18 Local
Exposed Population:
5310000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Aug 2012 10:39 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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

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