Overall Green Earthquake alert in Türkiye from 27 Jan 2017 20:51 UTC to 20:51

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M 4.8 in Türkiye from 27 Jan 2017 20:51 UTC to 20:51

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 1104224
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	Km
Lat/Lon:	35.83 , 28.81
Event Date:	27 Jan 2017 20:51 UTC 27 Jan 2017 22:51 Local
Exposed Population:	210000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	28 Jan 2017 05:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	3.2 (Türkiye)
INFORM Coping capacity list:	Türkiye= 3.2; Greece= 2.5

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
EMSC	0		0
563178	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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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),

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