M 5 in Türkiye on 11 May 2017 17:58 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 1112745
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 4.25 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.037 , 40.7815
Event Date: 11 May 2017 17:58 UTC
11 May 2017 20:58 Local
Exposed Population:
1050000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 May 2017 18:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.2 (Türkiye)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
us10008riw Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),