M 4.5 in Türkiye on 13 Nov 2012 23:55 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 120863
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 11 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.1386 , 37.096
Event Date: 13 Nov 2012 23:55 UTC
14 Nov 2012 01:55 Local
Exposed Population:
4050000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Nov 2012 05:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
usc000ds8h 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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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 (40), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),