M 5 in Greece on 16 Apr 2016 00:10 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 1084487
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 34.9217 , 25.7373
Event Date: 16 Apr 2016 00:10 UTC
16 Apr 2016 03:10 Local
Exposed Population:
392435 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Apr 2016 01:33 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 151 | About casualties: 23 | Last hour: 0

Ecuador: estiman millonarios daños por el terremotoTue, 19 Apr 2016 23:52:00 +0200.

Redacción El Litoral. Agencias EFE/DPA. El presidente de Ecuador, Rafael Correa, calculó hoy que la reconstrucción de las zonas afectadas por el terremoto del pasado sábado en Ecuador costará “miles de millones de dólares”, mientras que la
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Imágenes de redes sobre megaterremoto y tsunami son falsasTue, 19 Apr 2016 23:31:00 +0200.

El Director General del Sistema Nacional de Protección Civil Panamá, José Donderis, dio a conocer en su cuenta de twitter, unas imágenes que son falsas. Las imágenes muestra y detallan sobre un Cinturon de Fuego capaz de provocar un megater
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Los 5 lugares de la Tierra más propensos a sufrir sismos desastrososTue, 19 Apr 2016 23:20:00 +0200.

A raíz de los devastadores terremotos que la semana pasada dejaron al menos a 42 y 413 muertos en Japón y Ecuador respectivamente, el periódico británico ‘The Independent’ ha publicado una lista con los 5 lugares del mundo más propensos a s
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Warnings via SMSTue, 19 Apr 2016 23:14:00 +0200.

THE Mineral Resources Department and Information Ministry have plans to send tsunami warnings via the mobile phone platform. Acting director Mineral Resources Department Raijeli Taga said there were a number of initiatives and warning syste
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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),