M 6.7 in Türkiye on 24 Jan 2020 17:55 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 1203232
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.7M
Depth: 11.91 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.3898 , 39.0814
Event Date: 24 Jan 2020 17:55 UTC
24 Jan 2020 20:55 Local
Exposed Population: About 27000 people in MMI
400 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 25 Jan 2020 18:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.2 (Türkiye)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 1.6 1.6
us60007ewc Scaled population (raster) 4.49  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.77  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Turkey - Earthquake update (ECHO 28 Jan 2020)Tue, 28 Jan 2020 11:04

  • The number of fatalities in Elazig and Malatya provinces (central-eastern Turkey) has increased to 41, after the earthquake of 6.7M occurred in Sivrice District on 24 January.
  • Search and rescue operations have ended. The Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) reports that the number of damaged buildings has increased to 11,032, of which 274 are destroyed.
  • The EU's Copernicus emergency satellite mapping service was activated for the affected area on 24 January after the request from AFAD, and have been produced.
  • Cold temperatures, moderate rain and snow are forecast over Elazig and Malatya on 28-29 January.
Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

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