M 4.5 in Türkiye on 21 Jul 2018 06:15 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 1150991
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 6 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.04 , 44.16
Event Date: 21 Jul 2018 06:15 UTC
21 Jul 2018 09:15 Local
Exposed Population:
2040000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Jul 2018 06:25 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.9 (Armenia)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Armenia= 4.9; Azerbaijan= 4.7; Islamic Republic of Iran= 4.6; Türkiye= 3.2

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0 0
696779 Scaled population (vector) 6.18  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.98  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 21 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Turquie: un immeuble s'effondre suite à des pluies torrentiellesWed, 25 Jul 2018 04:56:00 +0200.

Intempéries Un violent orage s'est abattu sur Istanbul dans la nuit de lundi à mardi et a provoqué un glissement de terrain. Un immeuble résidentiel s'est effondré mais aucun blessé n'est à déplorer. Un immeuble résidentiel de quatre étage
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Turquie : le spectaculaire effondrement d'un immeubleTue, 24 Jul 2018 19:16:00 +0200.

Un immeuble résidentiel de quatre étages s'est effondré mardi dans le centre d'Istanbul après être resté plusieurs heures en équilibre au bord d'un ravin provoqué par un glissement de terrain, selon des images spectaculaires diffusées par l
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Earthquake shakes southeastern part of TurkeyMon, 23 Jul 2018 10:31:00 +0200.

4,7-magnitude earthquake occurred in the southeastern Turkish province of Burdur, Turkish media reported July 23. The tremors were registered at 05:40 local time. The depth of the source of the earthquake was 5 km. Turkey is located in the
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Earthquake shakes southeastern part of TurkeyMon, 23 Jul 2018 08:37:00 +0200.

By Trend 4,7-magnitude earthquake occurred in the southeastern Turkish province of Burdur, Turkish media reported July 23. The tremors were registered at 05:40 local time. The depth of the source of the earthquake was 5 km. Turkey is locat
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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),