M 4.6 in Türkiye on 20 Nov 2025 09:09 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 1511137
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.1871 , 36.7595
Event Date: 20 Nov 2025 09:09 UTC
20 Nov 2025 12:09 Local
Exposed Population:
20 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 20 Nov 2025 10:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.2 (Türkiye)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000rpb8 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

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Seafloor sensors to cut quake warning time in Marmara 11/21/2025 7:40:00 AM.

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Türkiye Renews Confidence in Disaster Resistant Transportation 11/20/2025 10:49:00 AM.

Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloglu stated that the development of a disaster-resistant transportation infrastructure is not only an investment issue but also a national security issue He stated that he saw it as Ur
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),