M 4.8 in Türkiye on 16 Feb 2015 11:52 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 1048642
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.21 , 30
Event Date: 16 Feb 2015 11:52 UTC
16 Feb 2015 13:52 Local
Exposed Population:
2096828 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Feb 2015 16:36 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0.1 0.1
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=427628 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

Articles: 747 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Tsunami-Warnung: Erdbeben vor Japans NordostküsteTue, 17 Feb 2015 10:04:00 +0100.

Tsunami-Warnung Erdbeben vor Japans Nordostküste. Ein Erdbeben der Stärke 6,9 hat den Nordosten Japans erschüttert. Für die Provinz Iwate gaben die Behörden zweitweise eine Tsunami-Warnung aus. Die Flutwelle erreichte jedoch keine gefährlic
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Un nuevo terremoto de 5,7 grados de magnitud sacude el noreste de Japó ... Tue, 17 Feb 2015 10:03:00 +0100.

Un terremoto de magnitud de 5,7 grados en la escala abierta de Richter se ha registrado hoy en el nordeste de Japón, la misma zona que horas antes sufrió otro seísmo de 6,9 grados, aunque en esta ocasión no se ha activado alerta de tsunami.
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Potres i tsunami u Japanu: Evakuirali su više tisuća ljudiTue, 17 Feb 2015 09:53:00 +0100.

Sjeveroistočnu obalu Japana pogodio je potres jačine 6,9 stupnjeva po Richteru. Valovi visine između 10 i 20 centimetara pogodili su obale prefekture Iwate Utorak, 17. 2. 2015. u 09:23, zadnja izmjena prije 28 minuta Piše: Japanska seizmol
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Sterke zeebeving voor kust JapanTue, 17 Feb 2015 09:51:00 +0100.

TOKYO (ANP) - Voor de noordoostkust van Japan is dinsdagochtend (lokale tijd) een zware zeebeving met een kracht van 6,8 op de schaal van Richter gemeten. Er was een waarschuwing uitgevaardigd voor een vloedgolf van een meter voor de kustli
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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