M 4.6 in Greece on 13 Jan 2018 16:30 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 1130878
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 30 Km
Lat/Lon: 34.44 , 23.3
Event Date: 13 Jan 2018 16:30 UTC
13 Jan 2018 18:30 Local
Exposed Population:
About 4000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Jan 2018 17:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.5 (Greece)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0 0
641072 Scaled population (vector) 2.67  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.61  
  INFORM_normalised 0.69  
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Latest media headlines

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Civil Defence 'confident' in emergency mobile alert system safeguardsMon, 15 Jan 2018 23:51:00 +0100.

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Terremoto, scossa di magnitudo 4.4 in Grecia -Mon, 15 Jan 2018 23:49:00 +0100.

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4.4-magnitude quake jolts AthensMon, 15 Jan 2018 23:25:00 +0100.

jolted Athens today, the national observatory and experts said. The quake had a depth of just five kilometres and an epicentre 24 kilometres northeast of the Greek capital. It was followed by weaker aftershocks, the observatory said. "The
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),