M 4.5 in Greece on 02 Nov 2020 19:16 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 1242250
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.8283 , 26.4937
Event Date: 02 Nov 2020 19:16 UTC
02 Nov 2020 21:16 Local
Exposed Population:
3670000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Nov 2020 22:58 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.2 (Türkiye)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Türkiye= 3.2; Greece= 2.5

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000c9df Scaled population (vector) 5.85  
  C1 earthquake 1.37  
  C2 earthquake -0.11  
  Country Vulnerability 0.27  
  INFORM_normalised 0.77  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 518 | About casualties: 44 | Last hour: 0

Turkish quake raises fears that ‘the big one’ is comingFri, 06 Nov 2020 18:27:00 +0100.

When an earthquake measuring seven on the Richter scale hit the Aegean region of Turkey and Greece seven days ago, killing more than 100 people, it sharpened focus on a disaster that almost all experts agree is coming. In Istanbul, Turkey’s
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Turkish quake raises fears that ‘the big one’ is comingFri, 06 Nov 2020 18:14:00 +0100.

When an earthquake measuring seven on the Richter scale hit the Aegean region of Turkey and Greece seven days ago, killing more than 100 people, it sharpened focus on a disaster that almost all experts agree is coming. In Istanbul, Turkey’s
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MIL-OSI Mediterranean: MIKTA Foreign Ministers’ Joint Statement on the ... Fri, 06 Nov 2020 16:02:00 +0100.

Source: Republic of Turkey. We, the Foreign Ministers of Mexico, Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, Turkey and Australia, comprising MIKTA, are deeply saddened by the loss of life and damage caused by the high magnitude earthquake in the Aeg
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MIKTA Foreign Ministers’ Joint Statement on the Earthquake in Turkey a ... Fri, 06 Nov 2020 15:30:00 +0100.

05/11/2020 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 06/11/2020 10:23 MIKTA Foreign Ministers’ Joint Statement on the Earthquake in Turkey and Greece, 5 November 2020. We, the Foreign Ministers of Mexico, Indonesia, the Republic of Korea,
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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),