M 4.6 in Türkiye on 08 Jan 2013 06:05 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 121831
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 14 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.93 , 37.96
Event Date: 08 Jan 2013 06:05 UTC
08 Jan 2013 08:05 Local
Exposed Population:
2420000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Jan 2013 09:54 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0.5 0.5
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 120 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Durnwalder in Sri Lanka: visita i progettiTue, 08 Jan 2013 10:12:00 +0100.

Dopo lo tsunami del 2004, la provincia ha finanziato nuove costruzioni per un totale di 400 mila euro
Earthquake hits TurkeyTue, 08 Jan 2013 08:39:00 +0100.

An earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale took place in Turkish province of Adiyaman, CNN Turk TV channel reported.
Tsunami warning canceled for Alaska, CanadaTue, 08 Jan 2013 03:41:00 +0100.

JUNEAU, Alaska — Officials have canceled a tsunami warning for parts of southern Alaska and coastal Canada. The Alaska Tsunami Warning Center says a tsunami was generated by a strong earthquake, but the waves don't pose a threat to the area
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PM, 'tsunami' over? Let's wait for next earthquakeTue, 08 Jan 2013 03:04:00 +0100.

FREE YOURSAY ‘It's not due to the opposition that the people are misled, but the ruling party itself is the one creating the doubts.'

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),