M 4.9 in Türkiye on 10 Jan 2016 17:40 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 1078316
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 4 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.58 , 34.36
Event Date: 10 Jan 2016 17:40 UTC
10 Jan 2016 19:40 Local
Exposed Population:
1598433 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Jan 2016 18:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0.1 0.1
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=481559 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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 (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),