M 4.6 in Türkiye on 28 May 2017 11:04 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 1113974
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 30.2 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.7098 , 27.7775
Event Date: 28 May 2017 11:04 UTC
28 May 2017 14:04 Local
Exposed Population:
5660000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 May 2017 14:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.2 (Türkiye)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NOAIG 0 0
2017kjkx 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),