M 4.5 in Türkiye on 28 Apr 2013 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 124318
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 6 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.94 , 27.76
Event Date: 28 Apr 2013 16:30 UTC
28 Apr 2013 19:30 Local
Exposed Population:
930000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Apr 2013 19:35 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
us2013pnan Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
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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), INFORM (2), USGS (2),