M 5.5 in Greece on 27 Sep 2016 20:57 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 1094826
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 90 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.36 , 27.64
Event Date: 27 Sep 2016 20:57 UTC
27 Sep 2016 23:57 Local
Exposed Population:
459086 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Sep 2016 21:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC n.a 0
533718 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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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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