M 4.9 in Türkiye on 10 Jan 2016 17:40 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 1078316
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 4 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.58 , 34.36
Event Date: 10 Jan 2016 17:40 UTC
10 Jan 2016 19:40 Local
Exposed Population:
1598433 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Jan 2016 18:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0.1 0.1
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=481559 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: 507 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

'Hobbit' gets a neighbor: Stone tools suggest archaic human presenceThu, 14 Jan 2016 17:37:00 +0100.

When early humans began trekking out of Africa, they spread across Eurasia on foot. As some made it down into then-peninsular Southeast Asia, they would have run into a watery boundary, called Wallace's Line, that scientists thought essenti
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Un terremoto de 6.7 grados sacude el norte de Jap�n sin alerta de tsun ... Thu, 14 Jan 2016 17:20:00 +0100.

Tokio. (EFE).- Un terremoto de una magnitud de 6,7 grados en la escala abierta de Richter se registr� hoy en la isla de Hokkaido, en el norte de Jap�n, sin que se haya activado alerta de tsunami. La Agencia Meteorol�gica de Jap�n indic� que
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Economia - Franco svizzero, un anno fa l’addio al cambio fissoThu, 14 Jan 2016 16:45:00 +0100.

franco svizzero monete. È stata definita “terremoto” o “tsunami”, per rendere l’idea dell’impatto dirompente che ha avuto sull’economia e i mercati finanziari della Confederazione. L’inaspettata decisione della Banca Nazionale Svizzera di r
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Magnitude 6.7 quake jolts northern Japan, no tsunami warningThu, 14 Jan 2016 16:31:00 +0100.

Tokyo, Jan. 14 (Petra)-- A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck just off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Thursday, Japan's Meteorological Agency said. No tsunami warning was issued and NHK national television said that while ther
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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),