M 5.6 in Türkiye on 22 Jan 2020 19:22 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 1202859
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 8.6 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.082 , 27.8491
Event Date: 22 Jan 2020 19:22 UTC
22 Jan 2020 22:22 Local
Exposed Population: About 11000 people in MMI
5050000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Jan 2020 21:25 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.2 (Türkiye)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.9 0.9
us60007d2r Scaled population (raster) 2.9  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.77  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1148 | About casualties: 541 | Last hour: 0

Disminuyen labores de rescate en Turquía tras terremoto del viernesSun, 26 Jan 2020 19:08:00 +0100.

Labores de rescate y salvamento en Turquía tras terremoto. Autor: Reuters Publicado: 26/01/2020 | 01:02 pm. ANKARA, enero 25. El número de víctimas mortales por el terremoto de magnitud 6.8 que sacudió este viernes la provincia oriental tur
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36 dead and more than 1,000 hospitalized in Turkey earthquakeSun, 26 Jan 2020 19:00:00 +0100.

(CNN) — At least 36 people died and more than 1,607 have been hospitalized in eastern Turkey after an earthquake rattled the region on Friday evening, according to state broadcaster TRT Haber. The 6.7-magnitude quake struck near the town of
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Hopes fade for missing as Turkey quake toll risesSun, 26 Jan 2020 18:52:00 +0100.

The government's disaster and emergency management agency (AFAD) said 1,607 were injured, 13 of them in intensive care. The story of Syrian university student Mahmud al Osman, who used only his bare hands to rescue a man and woman from unde
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Turkey quake death toll hits 35Sun, 26 Jan 2020 18:52:00 +0100.

ELAZIG: Rescue workers remove corpses from the rubble of a building after an earthquake in Elazig, eastern Turkey yesterday. – AFP. ELAZIG: Hopes faded yesterday of finding more survivors from a powerful earthquake in eastern Turkey as more
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),