Overall Green Earthquake alert in Türkiye on 02 Mar 2017 11:07 UTC

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M 5.2 in Türkiye on 02 Mar 2017 11:07 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 1106825
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.2M
Depth:	11 Km
Lat/Lon:	37.6 , 38.49
Event Date:	02 Mar 2017 11:07 UTC 02 Mar 2017 14:07 Local
Exposed Population:	3610000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	02 Mar 2017 11:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	5.7 (Syria)
INFORM Coping capacity list:	Syria= 5.7; Türkiye= 3.2

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
EMSC	0.4		0.4
572980	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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