M 4.5 in Türkiye on 28 May 2017 02:50 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 1113949
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 9 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.72 , 27.79
Event Date: 28 May 2017 02:50 UTC
28 May 2017 05:50 Local
Exposed Population:
5660000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 May 2017 03:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.2 (Türkiye)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0 0
594833 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 437 | About casualties: 24 | Last hour: 0

Massive Kabul truck bomb kills 90, wounds hundredsThu, 01 Jun 2017 02:10:00 +0200.

At least 90 people were killed and hundreds wounded Wednesday when a massive truck bomb ripped through Kabul's diplomatic quarter during rush hour, in the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital since 2001. Bloodied corpses littered the scen
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TERREMOTO OGGI/ Ingv, ultime scosse: Piemonte, Cuneo 2.0 M sisma vicin ... Thu, 01 Jun 2017 01:41:00 +0200.

TERREMOTO OGGI IN PIEMONTE, SCOSSA DI 2.0 M IN PROVINCIA DI CUNEO (DATI INGV IN TEMPO REALE, 1 GIUGNO 2017) - Nella notte c'è stato un terremoto in provincia di Cuneo da 2.0 Magnitudo. L'Istituto Nazionale Geofisica e Vulcanologia ha sottol
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Chimbote: destacan participación en simulacro de sismo y tsunamiThu, 01 Jun 2017 00:56:00 +0200.

El secretario técnico del Comité de Defensa Civil de la Provincia del Santa, Guillermo Abril León, destacó la participación masiva en el simulacro de sismo con repercusión de tsunami que se realizó en Chimbote al recordarse 47 años del deva
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Yokohama mayor apologizes to boy bullied for being a Fukushima evacueeThu, 01 Jun 2017 00:48:00 +0200.

Yokohama Mayor Fumiko Hayashi on Wednesday apologized to a 13-year-old boy for the municipal government's failure to act swiftly when he was bullied at a local primary school after evacuating from Fukushima due to the 2011 nuclear disaster.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),