M 6.7 in Türkiye on 20 Jul 2017 22:31 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1117364
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.7M
Glide number: TS-2017-000142-TUR
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.93 , 27.42
Event Date: 20 Jul 2017 22:31 UTC
21 Jul 2017 01:31 Local
Exposed Population: 1110000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Jul 2017 22:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.2 (Türkiye)
Maximum Wave Height observed: 0.13 m
INFORM Coping capacity list: Türkiye= 3.2; Greece= 2.5

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
EMSC 1 0.5 1
606346 Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake 1 Max wave realtime 0.37m  
  C2 earthquake 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (88), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),