Check that cabinets, shelves, and the TV are secured to the wall.
Keep a go-bag by the door: water, documents, first-aid kit, flashlight, charger.
Agree on a meeting point with your family and write it down.
Indoors — drop to the floor, take cover under a table, hold onto it.
Don't run for the elevator or step out onto a balcony.
Outdoors — move away from walls, shop windows, and power lines.
Check yourself and your family, then shut off gas and water.
Leave via the stairs, wear shoes — there may be broken glass on the floor.
Expect aftershocks in the first hours and the following day.
ANLIK DEPREM does not predict earthquakes — scientifically, earthquakes cannot be predicted.
USGS (Earthquake Hazards Program) is the primary global source, cache refreshes every 60 seconds. EMSC-CSEM provides fast alerts for Europe and the Mediterranean. AFAD and Kandilli Rasathanesi (Boğaziçi University) are priority sources for Turkey — their denser station network gives more accurate magnitude, depth, and nearest-city data for Turkish quakes than the global sources.
The map dot color and magnitude badge in the feed depend on both magnitude and depth: ESI = magnitude − k·log10(depth). The deeper a quake, the less it's felt at the surface at the same magnitude.
Distance is measured from your geolocation (or its IP approximation) to the epicenter. The place name comes from the source data: USGS usually names the nearest city, EMSC gives a broader region.
Written by us: how to act while the ground moves, how to prepare beforehand, how to choose somewhere to live, and what is known about the toll of past disasters.
Situation by situation: a flat, a house at ground level, the street, a car, water, a boat. And why familiar advice like standing in a doorway no longer holds.
What to fasten down at home, what belongs in a go-bag, which documents to prepare, and what to agree with your family before the ground moves.
What matters in the first minutes, how to signal so that you are actually heard, and why a person who has been pinned for hours must not simply be pulled free — including you.
What to look at when buying or renting: the ground, the year of construction, the shape of the building, the open ground floor, and the papers worth asking for before you sign.
Why buildings are designed not to be indestructible but not to kill, what structural ductility means, and where builders most often cut corners.
Why magnitude barely predicts the death toll, why the figures differ between sources, and what repeats from one disaster to the next.
Color is the fastest signal in the interface — it shows the danger level without making you read numbers. Here's what each highlighted cell means.
The colored square with a number to the left of every row in the feed and on the quake page. Its color depends not just on magnitude but on the ESI index (magnitude adjusted for depth) — so two quakes with the same magnitude but different depth can show different colors.
The text label in the feed table (Not felt / Weak / Noticeable / Strong / Catastrophic). It uses the same ESI and the same 5-level scale as the magnitude badge — just repeating the same color as text so the table is easier to scan.
Every dot on the Map is colored on the same ESI scale, and its size grows with magnitude. The full legend opens from the "Danger level" button in the bottom-left corner of the map.
The chevron marks next to the "Depth" field on the quake page: their count shows how close the rupture is to the surface — 1 chevron (up to 70 km, shallow, felt more strongly), 2 (70–300 km) or 3 (over 300 km, deep, barely felt at the surface). The chevrons' color is the overall danger color (ESI), the same one used on the magnitude badge.
The kilometer figure in the "Distance" column is highlighted independently of the quake's magnitude: under 300 km — red, with a "Nearby" badge next to it; 300–1000 km — orange; over 1000 km — green. It's purely geographic proximity, not a measure of the quake's own danger.
Nearby