Overall Green Earthquake alert in Türkiye on 05 Oct 2012 10:25 UTC

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M 4.5 in Türkiye on 05 Oct 2012 10:25 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 120055
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	21 Km
Lat/Lon:	39.35 , 33.8
Event Date:	05 Oct 2012 10:25 UTC 05 Oct 2012 13:25 Local
Exposed Population:	1610000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	05 Oct 2012 10:43 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
EMSC	0.5		0.5
	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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Latest media headlines

China Landslide Kills 18 Students 10/5/2012 12:27:00 PM.

A landslide in quake-hit Yunnan province of southwest China Thursday left 18 primary school students dead, news agencies reported citing Chinese officials. The landslide hit the Tiantou Primary School and three nearby houses around 8:10 am

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China Landslide Topples Elementary School 10/4/2012 10:21:00 AM.

A landslide toppled an elementary school building and buried 18 students Thursday in a mountainous southwest China county recovering from a recent earthquake.

6,500 buildings to be demolished in urban renewal project 10/2/2012 1:07:00 AM.

Environment and Urban Planning Minister Erdogan Bayraktar made statements on Saturday about a new urban renewal project that will involve the demolition of some 6,500 buildings to prevent deaths due to non-earthquake resistant buildings.

‘Half of Istanbul homes are not quake resistant’ 9/30/2012 11:38:00 PM.

As the countdown to the start of Turkey’s massive urban transformation process...

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