M 4.5 in Türkiye on 04 Aug 2020 18:40 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 1228884
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.2424 , 38.7645
Event Date: 04 Aug 2020 18:40 UTC
04 Aug 2020 21:40 Local
Exposed Population:
2600000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Aug 2020 21:35 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.2 (Türkiye)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000b9bt Scaled population (vector) 6.45  
  C1 earthquake 1.37  
  C2 earthquake -0.11  
  Country Vulnerability 0.27  
  INFORM_normalised 0.77  
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Latest media headlines

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Magnitude 4.6 earthquake hits southeastern TurkeySat, 08 Aug 2020 10:40:00 +0200.

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Magnitude 4.6 earthquake hits southeastern TurkeySat, 08 Aug 2020 09:27:00 +0200.

Baku, August 8, AZERTAC A magnitude 4.6 earthquake hit Turkey's southeastern province of Bitlis on Friday, according to the country's disaster agency, Anadolu Agency reports. The country's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD)
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Magnitude 4.6 earthquake hits southeastern TurkeySat, 08 Aug 2020 00:10:00 +0200.

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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),