M 4.5 in Türkiye on 28 May 2017 02:50 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 1113949
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 9 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.72 , 27.79
Event Date: 28 May 2017 02:50 UTC
28 May 2017 05:50 Local
Exposed Population:
5660000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 May 2017 03:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.2 (Türkiye)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0 0
594833 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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90 killed, hundreds wounded in Kabul truck bomb 5/31/2017 10:47:00 PM.

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Kabul blast kills 90 5/31/2017 10:05:00 PM.

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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),