Türkiye and Syria Earthquake: Key Humanitarian Figures from OCHA Reports

Humanitarian impact metrics extracted from OCHA daily Situation Reports following the February 2023 earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria. The data tracks casualties and damage assessments starting from the initial 7.7 magnitude event and is maintained by HDX. It provides a structured record of figures reported by official sources during the emergency response period.

Use Cases

• Trend analysis of casualty figures across the earthquake response timeline
• Aggregating damage assessment metrics for regional impact visualization
• Integrating humanitarian statistics into GIS platforms using HXL-standardized fields

Strengths

• Derived from official OCHA Situation Reports
• Includes HXL tags for humanitarian data interoperability
• Covers impact data for both Türkiye and Syria

Limitations

• Manual extraction from text-based reports may lead to temporal gaps between events and data availability
• Lack of specific column metadata makes automated ingestion difficult without manual review

Provenance

Source

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

Collection Method

Extracted from daily Situation Reports

Time Range

Starting February 6, 2023

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Türkiye and Syria