M 6 in Türkiye on 06 Feb 2023 12:02 UTC

Hazard models

Rapid Impact
Shakemap
Tsunami

Event summary

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

Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Glide number: EQ-2023-000015-TUR
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.0605 , 36.537
Event Date: 06 Feb 2023 12:02 UTC
06 Feb 2023 15:02 Local
Exposed Population: 50 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Source: NEIC us6000jlrc
Inserted at: 06 Feb 2023 12:22 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score: 3.2 (Türkiye)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 1.2 1.2
us6000jlrc Scaled population (raster) 3.56  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.77  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

The green area correspond to areas affected by strong shaking (MMI VI or higher) according to the simulation.


Episode Timeline

IDAlertScoreDateMag, DepthMMI*Population**Tsunami risk***Delay (hh:mm)Source
1487359 1.2 06 Feb 2023 12:02 6M, 10km 7.07 40 thousand (in MMI>=VII) N/A 00:20 NEIC
The episode that generated the alert; the next major evaluations beyond 12 hours will not trigger additional alerts.
The episode that has the last updated information.
* The max MMI detected for sources having shakemaps;
** The population detected in MMI>=7 for episode with shakemap or in a 100km radius;
*** The tsunami max height.

Rapid Impact

The results presented below are calculated with the ShakeMap open source software (USGS) using only earthquake hypocenter information to provide a rapid estimation of the ground motion and shaking intensity without taking into account any instrumental observations or earthquake source scaling laws.

Exposed population

The earthquake happened in Türkiye ,of Kahraman Maras (population 969,291) . The alertlevel for this event is ORANGE

Intensity Population
41000 people
28000 people
130000 people

Affected Provinces

Intensity Region Province Country Population
Kahraman Maras Türkiye 31000 people
Kahraman Maras Türkiye 8100 people
Adana Türkiye <1000 people
Kahraman Maras Türkiye 71000 people
Adana Türkiye 18000 people
Kayseri Türkiye no people

Affected populated places. Areas of interest

Intensity Name Region Province Country City class Population Distance
Goksun Kahramanmaras Türkiye Village 35000 people 5 km
Keklikolugu Kahramanmaras Türkiye Village - 17 km
Tekir Kahramanmaras Türkiye Village - 22 km
Cardak Kahramanmaras Türkiye Village - 27 km
Yalak Adana Türkiye Village - 30 km
Tufanbeyli Adana Türkiye Village 5100 people 35 km
Rumlu Adana Türkiye Village - 36 km
Afsin Kahramanmaras Türkiye Village 59000 people 40 km

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Critical infrastructure

Airports, ports, nuclear plants and hydrodams at risk, if affected, are listed below.

More information

For a full list of available products related to this event, please refer to the GDACS Resources page.