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.
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Latest media headlines

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Ecuador: Two earthquakes claim a life, several injuredThu, 19 May 2016 06:47:00 +0200.

Two earthquakes struck Ecuador's coast on Wednesday, leading to one death and light damage in the same region where a magnitude 7.8 tremor killed more than 650 people in April. Wednesday's tremors, measuring 6.7 and 6.8 in magnitude, accord
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Cutremur cu magnitudinea de 6,7 grade in vestul EcuadoruluiThu, 19 May 2016 06:47:00 +0200.

Un cutremur cu magnitudinea de 6,7 grade a fost înregistrat ieri dimineaţă în Ecuador, a informat Institutul American de Geologie, citat de Reuters online. Cutremurul a avut epicentrul în apropiere de oraşul Muisne, de pe coasta de vest a ţ
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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),