M 7 in Greece,Türkiye on 30 Oct 2020 11:51 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1241508
Earthquake Magnitude: 7.0M
Depth: 21 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.9175 , 26.7901
Event Date: 30 Oct 2020 11:51 UTC
30 Oct 2020 13:51 Local
Exposed Population: About 3000 people in MMI
4600000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Oct 2020 13:40 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.2 (Türkiye)
Maximum Wave Height observed: 0.08 m
INFORM Coping capacity list: Türkiye= 3.2; Greece= 2.5

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 1.8 0.3 1.8
us7000c7y0 Scaled population (raster) 5.12 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0.37m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.77      
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M7 in Greece,Turkey - Copernicus EMS activation (EMSR476)Fri, 30 Oct 2020 16:26

EMSR476: Copernicus Emergency Management Service has been activated
Greece, Turkey - Earthquake update Thu, 05 Nov 2020 11:09

  • Following the 7.0 M earthquake occurred off the Aegean Sea between Samos Island (Greece) and the western coast of Izmir Province (Turkey) on 30 October, the number of deaths has risen in Turkey.
  • According to the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency of Turkey (AFAD), 114 people have died and 1,035 people have been injured. More than 2,910 tents have been installed in 12 points across Izmir (the most affected city) and 26 tents in Kusadasi, a city on the coast of Aydin province (south of Izmir). Search and rescue activities have been completed.
  • In Greece, 2 people died in Samos Island and the Greek Civil Protection declared a 6 months State of Emergency for the Municipalities of eastern and western Samos.
  • The European Commission's Copernicus emergency satellite mapping system was activated on 30 October () to support the damage assessment and 6 maps were produced.  
Greece, Turkey - Earthquake update (ECHO 06 Nov 2020)Fri, 06 Nov 2020 11:04

  • Following the 7.0 M earthquake occurred in the Aegean Sea between Samos Island (Greece) and the western coast of Izmir Province (Turkey) on 30 October, in Turkey the number of deaths has risen. 
  • According to the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency of Turkey (AFAD), 114 people have died and 1,035 people have been injured. More than 2,910 tents have been installed in 12 points across Izmir, the most affected city and 26 tents in Kusadasi, a city on the coast of Aydin province (south of Izmir). Search and rescue activities have been completed.
  • In Greece, 2 people have died in Samos Island and the Greek Civil Protection declared a six months State of Emergency for the Municipalities of Eastern and Western Samos. The General Secretariat for Civil Protection has already sent to Samos 120 tents for responding to the first immediate needs.
  • The European Commission's Copernicus emergency satellite mapping system was activated on 30 October () to support the damage assessment and 6 maps have been produced.
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1845 | About casualties: 764 | Last hour: 0

Young girl rescued 91 hours after Turkey quakeTue, 03 Nov 2020 11:56:00 +0100.

Rescue workers carry four-year-old girl Ayda Gezgin as they pull her out of the rubble of a building 91 hours after it collapsed during a 7.0-magnitude earthquake, at Bayrakli district, in Izmir, on November 3, 2020 AFP. A three-year-old g
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Turkey earthquake: Rescuers pull out girl from rubble 4 days after qua ... Tue, 03 Nov 2020 11:55:00 +0100.

Even as hopes of reaching survivors began to fade, rescuers in the Turkish city of Izmir pulled a young girl out alive from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building on Tuesday, four days after a strong earthquake hit Turkey and Greece.
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Turkish rescuers pull girl from rubble 4 days after quake - The Associ ... Tue, 03 Nov 2020 11:54:00 +0100.

IZMIR, TURKEY (AP) — Even as hopes of reaching survivors began to fade, rescuers in the Turkish city of Izmir pulled a young girl out alive from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building on Tuesday, four days after a strong earthquake hi
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News24.com | Death toll climbs to 100 from devastating Aegean earthqua ... Tue, 03 Nov 2020 11:53:00 +0100.

The death toll from Friday's earthquake in the Aegean Sea has reached 100, with the deaths of 98 people in Turkey's western city of Izmir, disaster authorities said. Two teenagers also died on the Greek island of Samos, authorities said. It
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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: EMSR (2), EC-JRC (91), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),