M 4.5 in Türkiye on 04 Dec 2015 15:37 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 1074651
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 1.1 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.2618 , 40.221
Event Date: 04 Dec 2015 15:37 UTC
04 Dec 2015 17:37 Local
Exposed Population:
994430 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Dec 2015 15:48 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
KOERI 0 0
2015120453740. 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

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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),