M 5 in Türkiye on 06 Feb 2017 03:51 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 1104868
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 11.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.5235 , 26.1032
Event Date: 06 Feb 2017 03:51 UTC
06 Feb 2017 06:51 Local
Exposed Population:
560000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Feb 2017 04:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.2 (Türkiye)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Türkiye= 3.2; Greece= 2.5

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NOAIG 0.2 0.2
2017cobs Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),