M 5.2 in Greece on 25 Jan 2017 18:50 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 1104057
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 58.58 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.396 , 26.4302
Event Date: 25 Jan 2017 18:50 UTC
25 Jan 2017 20:50 Local
Exposed Population:
About 76000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Jan 2017 00:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.5 (Greece)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007vdu Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),