M 5.1 in Türkiye on 20 Feb 2019 18:23 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 1171436
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.7018 , 26.3823
Event Date: 20 Feb 2019 18:23 UTC
20 Feb 2019 21:23 Local
Exposed Population: About 5000 people in MMI
1040000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Feb 2019 18:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.2 (Türkiye)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Türkiye= 3.2; Greece= 2.5

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000jkr3 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.77  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),