M 4.7 in Greece on 28 Sep 2016 07:17 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 1094846
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.7 , 21.78
Event Date: 28 Sep 2016 07:17 UTC
28 Sep 2016 10:17 Local
Exposed Population:
236590 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Sep 2016 11:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0 0
533815 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

Articles: 296 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

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Mother recalls the pain, struggleSun, 02 Oct 2016 05:54:00 +0200.

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Amazing willpower to overcome oddsSun, 02 Oct 2016 00:28:00 +0200.

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