M 4.9 in Greece on 18 Nov 2018 06:06 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 1162602
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.44 , 20.3
Event Date: 18 Nov 2018 06:06 UTC
18 Nov 2018 07:06 Local
Exposed Population:
120000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Nov 2018 06:56 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.5 (Greece)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0 0
726300 Scaled population (vector) 4.46  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.61  
  INFORM_normalised 0.69  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 233 | About casualties: 13 | Last hour: 0

Earthquake response drill for PPC minersWed, 21 Nov 2018 22:59:00 +0100.

Workers at a Public Power Corporation lignite mine in Kozani, northern Greece, carry out a preparedness exercise on Wednesday. Code-named Pandora, the annual exercise is aimed at training workers at the mine what to do in the event of a nat
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Elephant in the room: are animals far cleverer than humans like to thi ... Sat, 17 Nov 2018 06:26:00 +0100.

Phuket Elephant Sanctuary. Courtesy Phuket Elephant Sanctuary. An elephant that can count or a dog that can foretell a disaster would once have been the topic of fiction or a circus attraction, but now they are the focus of scientific inter
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Entropy, Vol. 20, Pages 882: Study in Natural Time of Geoelectric Fiel ... Fri, 16 Nov 2018 16:01:00 +0100.

Abstract A strong earthquake of magnitude M w 6.8 struck Western Greece on 25 October 2018 with an epicenter at 37.515 N 20.564 E. It was preceded by an anomalous geolectric signal that was recorded on 2 October 2018 at a measuring station
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Greece: Greece: 6.8M Earthquake and Tsunami (25 October 2018)Thu, 15 Nov 2018 12:33:00 +0100.

Map Information - An earthquake of 6.8 M at the depth of 14 km occurred in the Ionian Sea (western Greece) on 25 October at 22:54 UTC. The epicentre was located offshore 45 km south-west of Zakintos Island. The earthquake affected the islan
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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),