M 4.9 in Türkiye on 29 Nov 2015 00:28 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 1073889
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.8709 , 37.7549
Event Date: 29 Nov 2015 00:28 UTC
29 Nov 2015 02:28 Local
Exposed Population:
1252285 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Nov 2015 00:48 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Exposed population

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Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),