M 5.8 in Türkiye on 06 Feb 2023 10:35 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 1357562
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.0084 , 37.7505
Event Date: 06 Feb 2023 10:35 UTC
06 Feb 2023 13:35 Local
Exposed Population: 1 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 06 Feb 2023 10:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.2 (Türkiye)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.6 0.6
us6000jlqe Scaled population (raster) 2.11  
  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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 5808 | About casualties: 660 | Last hour: 0

Live Updates I Focus turns to quake aid but rescues continue2023-02-10T10:41+0100.

Emergency crews made a series of dramatic rescues in Turkey on Friday, pulling several people from the rubble four days after a catastrophic 7.8-magnitude earthquake killed more than 20,000. Temperatures remain below freezing across the lar
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Gli USA inviano $85 milioni a Turchia e Siria per il terremoto2023-02-10T10:41+0100.

Qualche giorno fa Biden lo aveva promesso: “Diteci di cosa avete bisogno e ve lo daremo”. E così nelle ultime ore la Casa Bianca ha stanziato giovedì 85 milioni di dollari in aiuti umanitari immediati per le vittime del terremoto in Turchia
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Türkiye Education suspended until Feb 20 across country2023-02-10T10:39+0100.

Education suspended until Feb 20 across country KAHRAMANMARAŞ in preschools and primary, secondary and high schools has been suspended until Feb. 20, while the opening of the spring semester of higher education has been postponed indefinit
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Live Updates I Focus turns to quake aid but rescues …2023-02-10T10:37+0100.

Emergency crews made a series of dramatic rescues in Turkey on Friday, pulling several people from the rubble four days after a catastrophic 7.8-magnitude earthquake killed more than 20,000. Temperatures remain below freezing across the lar
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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),