M 4.6 in Greece on 11 Apr 2016 18:53 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 1084144
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 12 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.22 , 20.3
Event Date: 11 Apr 2016 18:53 UTC
11 Apr 2016 21:53 Local
Exposed Population:
285398 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Apr 2016 06:57 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0 0
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=499940 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: 809 | About casualties: 145 | Last hour: 0

Japón soportó el terremoto más potente desde el tsunami del 2011Fri, 15 Apr 2016 18:16:00 +0200.

La Agencia Meteorológica de Japón (JMA) no decretó la alerta de tsunami a raíz del seísmo, mientras que la empresa que opera la planta nuclear de Sendai, que se encuentra a unos 120 kilómetros al sur del epicentro y que es la única actualme
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Baby pulled out from rubble as aftershocks rattle Japan following dead ... Fri, 15 Apr 2016 18:13:00 +0200.

"It's as if all control was lost, I thought I was going to die and I couldn't bear it any longer," said Yuichiro Yoshikado, who was taking a bath in his apartment in the hardest-hit town of Mashiki, which lies on Kumamoto's eastern border,
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Terremoto no Japão deixa nove mortos e 1.126 feridosFri, 15 Apr 2016 18:08:00 +0200.

O terremoto de 6,5 graus de magnitude que atingiu a quinta-feira (13) o sudoeste do Japão deixou pelo menos nove mortos e 1.126 feridos, entre eles 50 em estado grave, segundo dados divulgados nesta sexta-feira pelas autoridades japonesas.
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Baby girl pulled alive from rubble as aftershocks continue to rattle J ... Fri, 15 Apr 2016 18:01:00 +0200.

Aftershocks rattled southwestern Japan on Friday after a strong quake the night before killed nine people, injured at least 1,000 and cut power and water across the region, forcing the temporary shutdown of several auto and electronics fact
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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),