M 4.5 in Türkiye on 28 Oct 2015 16:20 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 1070510
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 13 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.82 , 27.76
Event Date: 28 Oct 2015 16:20 UTC
28 Oct 2015 19:20 Local
Exposed Population:
5465673 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Oct 2015 16:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0 0
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=467047 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.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 223 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

Voting ends in crucial Turkish parliamentary election after tens of mi ... Sun, 01 Nov 2015 16:11:00 +0100.

. ANKARA, Turkey (AP) " Voting ends in crucial Turkish parliamentary election after tens of millions cast votes. AP. This story has been automatically published from the Associated Press wire which uses US spellings. Get the news deliver
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Graveyard visits mix revelry with sadnessSun, 01 Nov 2015 15:59:00 +0100.

TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte: Millions of Filipinos made their annual pilgrimages to family gravesites on Sunday in a tradition that combines fervent Catholic faith with the country’s penchant for festivity. The overwhelmingly Catholic Philippines
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Maltempo Calabria: SS682, riaperto lo svincolo di Gioiosa IonicaSun, 01 Nov 2015 14:09:00 +0100.

(Di domenica 1 novembre 2015) riaperto al traffico lo svincolo di Gioiosa Ionica . Lo rende noto l’Anas E’ tornata alla normalita’ la circolazione sulla statale 682 Ionio Tirreno ed e’ stato riaperto al traffico lo svincolo di Gioiosa Ionic
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Devastanti mareggiate in Sicilia, danni nelle abitazioni. Le FOTO dei ... Sun, 01 Nov 2015 14:09:00 +0100.

(Di domenica 1 novembre 2015) Le violente mareggiate che da ieri stanno colpendo la Sicilia provocano gravi danni nelle province di Catania e Messina. In molti punti il mare è arrivato fin dentro le abitazioni danni sui lungomare di moltiss
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),