M 4.5 in Greece on 24 Oct 2020 07:50 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 1240723
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.0382 , 21.8847
Event Date: 24 Oct 2020 07:50 UTC
24 Oct 2020 08:50 Local
Exposed Population:
About 26000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Oct 2020 08:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.5 (Greece)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ccht Scaled population (vector) 3.57  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.61  
  INFORM_normalised 0.69  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 27 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Nea Moni Monastery, An Historical Treasure on the Greek Island of Chio ... Thu, 22 Oct 2020 08:11:00 +0200.

New Mini Monastery, original dedicated in 1049. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Located on the Greek island of Chios is another treasure from Greece’s long history, now listed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Nea Moni, or “New Monastery,” which
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Nea Moni Monastery, An Historical Treasure on the Greek Island of Chio ... Wed, 21 Oct 2020 18:33:00 +0200.

New Mini Monastery, original dedicated in 1049. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Located on the Greek island of Chios is another treasure from Greece’s long history, now listed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Nea Moni, or “New Monastery,” which
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October 17Sat, 17 Oct 2020 08:09:00 +0200.

commits suicide before he could be handed over to the arrives in . He will reign on the throne of Greece for the next 50 years. : A movement in the Greek Navy against the is violently put down. : A powerful earthquake (6.0 on the Richter s
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Croatia to get 683.7 million € to remove consequences of Zagreb earthq ... Sat, 10 Oct 2020 04:52:00 +0200.

The European Commission on Friday proposed that Croatia be allocated aid in the amount of €683.7 million from the European Solidarity Fund to remove the consequences of a strong earthquake that hit Zagreb on March 22. The first tranche, in
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),