M 4.5 in Türkiye on 01 May 2017 16:30 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 1111791
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.2323 , 42.9158
Event Date: 01 May 2017 16:30 UTC
01 May 2017 19:30 Local
Exposed Population:
1230000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 May 2017 18:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.9 (Iraq)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Iraq= 6.9; Türkiye= 3.2

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008mku 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)

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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),