M 5.6 in Türkiye on 06 Feb 2023 01:36 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 1357378
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.0175 , 36.7443
Event Date: 06 Feb 2023 01:36 UTC
06 Feb 2023 04:36 Local
Exposed Population: Few people affected (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 06 Feb 2023 02:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.7 (Syria)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Syria= 5.7; Türkiye= 3.2

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000jlm9 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 6660 | About casualties: 659 | Last hour: 0

Le Canada pourrait accélérer les demandes d’immigration de victimes de ... 2023-02-10T01:53+0100.

Deux séismes majeurs ont secoué en quelques heures lundi le sud-ouest de la Turquie et le nord-ouest de la Syrie, détruisant des milliers de bâtiments. ; il atteignait jeudi plus de 20 000 morts et au moins 75 000 blessés. Des dizaines de m
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« Charlie Hebdo » se moque de la tragédie des victimes du tremblement ... 2023-02-10T01:50+0100.

Le journal français « Charlie Hebdo » a reçu un torrent de critiques depuis lundi, après avoir publié une caricature se moquant des victimes du violent tremblement de terre qui a fait des centaines de morts en Turquie et en Syrie. Le propri
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Charities scramble to collect funds, relief goods for Turkey-Syria vic ... 2023-02-10T01:44+0100.

Several Pakistani charities scrambled to collect funds and relief goods for the victims of Monday’s massive earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria that killed thousands of people. Al-Khidmat Foundation, one of the country’s largest relief and res
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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Feb. 102023-02-10T01:40+0100.

UNITED NATIONS -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday announced that the world body will launch a flash appeal for donor support for those affected by the earthquake in Syria next week. "The earthquake that struck Türkiye and
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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.
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),