M 5.9 in Greece on 18 Sep 2020 16:28 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 1235863
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 44.49 Km
Lat/Lon: 34.9972 , 25.3313
Event Date: 18 Sep 2020 16:28 UTC
18 Sep 2020 19:28 Local
Exposed Population: 460000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Sep 2020 16:32 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.5 (Greece)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bpvt Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.69  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 21 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Powerful earthquake of 5.7 magnitude strikes off shore of Greece's Cre ... Sat, 19 Sep 2020 10:47:00 +0200.

A 5.7 magnitude earthquake has been registered off the shore of the Greek island of Crete, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) said. Topics A 5.7 magnitude earthquake has been registered off the shore of the Greek island
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Magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes off shore of Greece's creteSat, 19 Sep 2020 09:11:00 +0200.

Crete [Greece], September 19 (ANI/Sputnik): A 5.7 magnitude earthquake has been registered off the shore of the Greek island of Crete, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) said. The tremor was recorded at 16:28 GMT, with t
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Magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes off shore of Greece's creteSat, 19 Sep 2020 08:56:00 +0200.

Crete [Greece], September 19 (ANI/Sputnik): A 5.7 magnitude earthquake has been registered off the shore of the Greek island of Crete, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) said. The tremor was recorded at 16:28 GMT, with t
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Magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes off shore of Greece's creteSat, 19 Sep 2020 08:48:00 +0200.

Crete [Greece], September 19 (ANI/Sputnik): A 5.7 magnitude earthquake has been registered off the shore of the Greek island of Crete, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) said. The tremor was recorded at 16:28 GMT, with t
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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),