M 6 in Türkiye on 28 Dec 2013 15:21 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 1021550
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 11 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.0058 , 31.3002
Event Date: 28 Dec 2013 15:21 UTC
28 Dec 2013 17:21 Local
Exposed Population:
546843 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Dec 2013 15:38 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
KOERI 0.6 0.6
2013122852102. Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),