M 5.5 in Türkiye on 06 Feb 2023 02:03 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 1357398
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.7769 , 37.9199
Event Date: 06 Feb 2023 02:03 UTC
06 Feb 2023 05:03 Local
Exposed Population: Few people affected (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 06 Feb 2023 04:04 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.2 (Türkiye)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us6000jlmh Scaled population (raster) 0.9  
  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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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Another batch of humanitarian aid of Ministry of Emergency Situations ... 2023-02-10T02:20+0100.

BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 10 . In accordance with the instructions of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, special vehicles with regular humanitarian aid from the Ministry of Emergency Situations left for the Republic
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Another 2 quake victims rescued following joint Chinese-Turkish effort ... 2023-02-10T02:19+0100.

This photo taken with a mobile phone shows members of the China Search and Rescue Team transferring a woman survivor with their local partners in Antakya in the southern province of Hatay, Türkiye, Feb. 9, 2023. (Xinhua/Wang Tengfei) ANTAKY
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Séisme en Turquie : cette photo bouleversante dit tout de la...2023-02-10T02:13+0100.

ADEM ALTAN / AFP Le 7 février, à Kahramanmaras, le photographe de l’Agence France presse Adem Altan a pris en photo Mesut Hancer, tenant la main de sa fille Imak au milieu des décombres de leur maison. L’adolescente a été tuée dans le séism
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L'Agglo Seine-Eure vote une aide à la Turquie après les séismes meurtr ... 2023-02-10T02:12+0100.

À Louviers, ce jeudi 9 février 2023, les élus de l'Agglomération Seine-Eure ont voté à l'unanimité une aide exceptionnelle de 10 000 euros pour les populations sinistrées de Turquie, après le séisme meurtrier qui a frappé le pays début févr
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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: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),