M 4.9 in Türkiye on 05 Dec 2021 21:46 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 1300161
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 8.65 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.8572 , 43.4752
Event Date: 05 Dec 2021 21:46 UTC
06 Dec 2021 00:46 Local
Exposed Population:
1.6 million in 100km
Inserted at: 05 Dec 2021 22:32 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Islamic Republic of Iran)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Islamic Republic of Iran= 4.6; Türkiye= 3.2

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.6 0.6
us6000g9c1 Scaled population (vector) 6.38  
  C1 earthquake 1.29  
  C2 earthquake 0.26  
  Country Vulnerability 0.55  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),