M 4.5 in Greece on 15 May 2016 07:52 UTC

Event summary

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

GDACS ID EQ 1086335
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 78.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.2625 , 21.3886
Event Date: 15 May 2016 07:52 UTC
15 May 2016 08:52 Local
Exposed Population:
566069 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 May 2016 08:28 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NOAIG n.a n.a
2016jngo Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),