Turkey: Earthquake
Earthquake
How the score is calculated
The score starts at 8. It adds points from recorded affected, deaths, displaced and casualty counts, plus terms found in the story title, event type or status. For each count, only its highest matching band is used.
- Affected people
- 1–999: +5 · 1,000–9,999: +12 · 10,000–99,999: +20 · 100,000–999,999: +28 · 1 million+: +35
- Deaths
- 1–9: +8 · 10–99: +14 · 100–999: +22 · 1,000+: +30
- Displaced people
- 1–9,999: +6 · 10,000–99,999: +12 · 100,000+: +18
- Casualties
- 100 or more: +8
- Story wording
- +10 for terms such as catastrophe, famine, war, conflict, major earthquake, mass casualty or critical. Otherwise, +5 for active, ongoing, emergency, outbreak, cyclone or hurricane.
Score bands: Watch 0–24 · Moderate 25–49 · High 50–74 · Critical 75–100. Scores are capped at 100. Missing or unparseable figures add no points.
This is a rule-based WorldsAid triage indicator, not an official or independently validated classification. It does not account for recency or local context, and it can understate events with incomplete reporting. Check the linked sources.
Historical record
Status: CLOSED · Imported 2026-10-07
Closed for this historical import at the site owner’s request; not a new assessment of current conditions.
In brief
- What happenedA magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit western province of İzmir, Turkey on Friday October 30, 2:51 pm local time.
- How many affectedAffected persons: 800 · Deaths: 80
- What help is neededThe teams of the TRC’s Regional Disaster Management Center have been distributed 20.458 cups of soup, 10.026 ready-to-eat meals, 7.168 hot drinks, 5.436 cold beverages and 6.730 bottled water in Bayraklı District, 10.000 cups of soup in Seferihisar and over 4.527 cups of soup in the other districts of İzmir.
What changed
First retained snapshot
No earlier verified snapshot is present in the recovered dataset. This record remains available as the historical baseline.
Situation
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit western province of İzmir, Turkey on Friday October 30, 2:51 pm local time. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said the quake had an epicentre 13 km northeast of the Greek island of Samos. The earthquake was felt in provinces as far as İstanbul, Bodrum, Muğla and Manisa. Soon after the initial quake, the province was shaken further by 277 aftershocks, with 24 of them more powerful than magnitude 4.0. The quake has left severe damage to the structures and infrastructures in different areas of Bornova and Bayraklı regions of the city, pushing the residents to flee in panic into the streets. At least 17 buildings have been reported collapsed and several others damaged. Turkish Interior Ministry announced that earthquake caused 21 lives and injured 799 others. According to Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) Search and Rescue Teams continues around 13 buildings and so far 70 people rescued from debris in Bayraklı district of İzmir, Turkey’s 3rd large city by population. Izmir Governor Yavuz Selim Kosger reported that there was a partial tsunami in the coastal district of Seferihisar, where at least one person was injured. Turkish Red Crescent Action The Turkish Red Crescent Society (TRC) has been on alert from the initial moments of the Earthquake. The Turkish Red Crescent in charge of providing mass feeding in the national contingency plan mobilized its capacity to serve 56.300 people simultaneously. This capacity involves 5 catering vehicles, 5 mobile/field kitchens, 27 vehicles along with 112 staff and 137 volunteers. The teams of the TRC’s Regional Disaster Management Center have been distributed 20.458 cups of soup, 10.026 ready-to-eat meals, 7.168 hot drinks, 5.436 cold beverages and 6.730 bottled water in Bayraklı District, 10.000 cups of soup in Seferihisar and over 4.527 cups of soup in the other districts of İzmir. TRC’s PSP teams from the community centers in İzmir, İstanbul and Bursa have been deployed to provide support to the affected population the affected areas. TRC’s Community Health Teams have been distributing 144.460 facemasks and 5.000 disinfectants to prevent the spread of the covid-19 in the affected region. TRC’s Regional Disaster Management Center has dispatched 51 multipurpose tents, 2.049 family-type tents, 16.050 blankets, 6.888 mattresses, 1.256 heaters and 2.657 kitchen sets to the affected area. Contact information for further information specifically related to this operation please contact: Alper Uluca, Director of International Programs and Operations Email: alper.uluca@kizilay.org.tr Mobile: +905530357077
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WorldsAid verification
A WorldsAid editor reviewed this record against 1 attributed source, cleaned feed formatting and checked the crisis, place and reporting date. 2 human-impact figures were separated from the narrative and dated where the source allowed. Earlier observations remain in the evidence history instead of being silently overwritten.
Verified figures
- Affected persons
- 800 retained at 2020-11-02
- Deaths
- 80 retained at 2020-11-02
What we knew when
- WorldsAid record entered the retained historical dataset.
- Last verification represented by this immutable snapshot.
Earlier figures are never replaced by later values; additional observations are retained as new ledger entries.
Provenance
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