M 5.1 in Greece on 15 Feb 2016 18:55 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 1080681
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 5 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.58 , 21.7
Event Date: 15 Feb 2016 18:55 UTC
15 Feb 2016 20:55 Local
Exposed Population:
928807 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Feb 2016 19:27 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0.2 0.2
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=488619 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.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 261 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

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Ragusa : Oggi 12/02 tre lievi scosse di assestamento. Oggi , Venerdì 12 febbraio, sono state segnalate tre piccole scosse di Terremoto tra il Ragusa no e il siracusano: Le scosse sismiche, avvenute tra le ore 12,30 e le ore 14,10, sono stat
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الأمم المتحدة: على العالم حفظ أرواح أطفال المهاجرين .Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:37:00 +0100.

دعت وكالات الأمم المتحدة دول العالم إلى تعزيز سلامة اللاجئين والمهاجرين في ظل تزايد أعداد وفيات الأطفال خلال محاولة عائلاتهم اليائسة الفرار من الصراعات وعبور البحر المتوسط. وطالبت مفوضية الأمم المتحدة لشؤون اللاجئين ومنظمة اليونيسيف والمنظم
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Africa: With Growing Numbers of Child Deaths At Sea, UN Agencies Call ... Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:17:00 +0100.

press release. An average of two children have drowned every day since September 2015 as their families try to cross the eastern Mediterranean, and the number of child deaths is growing said IOM, UNHCR, and UNICEF. The agencies are calling
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Sismo de 5.1 grados se registra cerca de FukushimaFri, 19 Feb 2016 17:09:00 +0100.

Un sismo de 5.1 grados de magnitud en la escala de Richter se registró este viernes cerca de las costas de Japón, a unos 105 kilómetros de distancia de la central nuclear Fukushima. El Servicio Geológico de los Estados Unidos precisó que El
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),