M 4.6 in Dodecanese Islands, Greece on 20 Jan 2021 23:37 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 1252454
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.8777 , 26.7493
Event Date: 20 Jan 2021 23:37 UTC
21 Jan 2021 01:37 Local
Exposed Population:
4310000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Jan 2021 23:52 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
us7000d1v3 Scaled population (vector) 6.33  
  C1 earthquake 1.37  
  C2 earthquake -0.11  
  Country Vulnerability 0.27  
  INFORM_normalised 0.77  
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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),