Overall Green Earthquake alert in Greece on 25 Sep 2017 05:58 UTC

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M 4 in Greece on 25 Sep 2017 05:58 UTC

Hazard models

EQ parameters

Shakemap

Tsunami

Event summary

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

Earthquake Magnitude:	4.0M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	36.5495 , 19.572
Event Date:	25 Sep 2017 05:58 UTC 25 Sep 2017 06:58 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Source:	NOAIG 2017suhe
Inserted at:	25 Sep 2017 06:08 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score	1.1 (Greece)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NOAIG	0		0
2017suhe	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

Episode Timeline

ID	Alert	Score	Date	Mag, Depth	MMI*	Population**	Tsunami risk***	Delay (hh:mm)	Source
1181818		0	25 Sep 2017 05:58	4M, 10km	N/A	No people affected (in 100km)		00:09	NOAIG

The episode that generated the alert; the next major evaluations beyond 12 hours will not trigger additional alerts.

The episode that has the last updated information.

* The max MMI detected for sources having shakemaps;
** The population detected in MMI>=7 for episode with shakemap or in a 100km radius;
*** The tsunami max height.

Exposed population

The earthquake happened in Greece , Region of Ionian Islands (population 192,059) .

Radius	Population
100 km	no people
75 km	no people
50 km	no people
20 km	no people
10 km	no people
5 km	no people
2 km	no people

Affected Provinces

Region Province	Country	Population
Ionian Islands	Greece	190000 people
Peloponnisos	Greece	1.1 million people
Central Greece and Evvoia	Greece	-
Ipiros	Greece	340000 people
Calabria	Italy	2.2 million people
Thessalia	Greece	730000 people
Sarande	Albania	93000 people
Gjirokaster	Albania	70000 people
Puglia	Italy	4.1 million people
Crete	Greece	540000 people
Sicilia	Italy	5.2 million people
Vlore	Albania	-
Permet	Albania	42000 people
Kolonje	Albania	26000 people
Tepelene	Albania	54000 people
Macedonia	Greece	2.3 million people
Skrapar	Albania	50000 people
Fier	Albania	260000 people
Berat	Albania	190000 people
Korce	Albania	210000 people
Al Fatih	Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	100000 people
Al Jabal al Akhdar	Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	460000 people
Banghazi	Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	850000 people
Darnah	Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	110000 people
Gramsh	Albania	47000 people
Lushnje	Albania	140000 people
Pogradec	Albania	77000 people
Elbasan	Albania	260000 people
Librazhd	Albania	78000 people
Durres	Albania	240000 people

Critical infrastructure

Airports, ports, nuclear plants and hydrodams at risk, if affected, are listed below.

More information

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