M 5.8 in Greece on 30 Jan 2020 11:21 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 1204300
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.2254 , 27.8103
Event Date: 30 Jan 2020 11:21 UTC
30 Jan 2020 13:21 Local
Exposed Population: 20 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 31 Jan 2020 11:25 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.5 (Greece)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us60007jzj Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.69  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 80 | About casualties: 18 | Last hour: 0

Ants can save millions from earthquakesFri, 31 Jan 2020 19:28:00 +0100.

; Credit: © Shutterstock. When California and Japan, Indonesia, Italy and Greece next suffer the worst of earthquakes, there is help already available, apart from the early warning seismology that tsunami warning centres (TWCs) provide. Ger
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Potential tsunami most likely to hit populated eastern coast of Malta, ... Fri, 31 Jan 2020 14:34:00 +0100.

Low-lying areas in Mellieħa, Xemxija, Salini, Gzira, Msida, Marsascala, St Thomas Bay, Marsaxlokk and Birzebbuga will be the most adversely hit parts of Malta if a tsunami were to occur, a study shows. The study was conducted by the Marine
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New Quake Shakes Greek Island of KarpathosThu, 30 Jan 2020 17:11:00 +0100.

An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale shook the Eastern Dodecanese islands at 13:24 local time (11:24 UTC) on Thursday. The epicenter of the temblor was located in the sea some 57 kilometers (35 miles) east of the Aegean island o
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Earthquakes today: Jamaica, Papua New Guinea and Greece hit by huge qu ... Wed, 29 Jan 2020 22:02:00 +0100.

One area still reeling from a huge earthquake is Turkey which on Friday, January 24 was hit by a magnitude-6.7 quake. This killed at least 38 people and injured more than 1,600 when it hit 21 miles from Elazig. Buildings crumbled into rubbl
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),