M 4.9 in Cyprus on 21 Jan 2021 14:27 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 1252575
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 68.47 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.0235 , 33.7103
Event Date: 21 Jan 2021 14:27 UTC
21 Jan 2021 16:27 Local
Exposed Population:
1130000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Jan 2021 14:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.7 (Cyprus)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000d23a Scaled population (vector) 6.46  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.71  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 58 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

Social insurance staff say their workplace is unsafe following Thursda ... Sat, 23 Jan 2021 17:10:00 +0100.

Saying that the earthquake which rattled Cyprus on Thursday only underscored the sorry state of their current premises, employees working at the social insurance department on Byron Avenue in Nicosia on Friday stepped up calls to move to a
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Cyprus hit by 5.0 quake, no injuries or damage reported (Update 3)Fri, 22 Jan 2021 14:26:00 +0100.

Cyprus was hit by an earthquake of a magnitude 5.0 on the Richter scale Thursday afternoon, according to the geological surveys department. The tremor hit at 4.27pm local time. The epicentre was reported near Dasaki Achnas, in the Famagusta
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Three aftershocks recorded after Thursday’s earthquakeFri, 22 Jan 2021 12:09:00 +0100.

Three aftershock measuring less than 2.5 on the Richter scale have been recorded since the big earthquake that took place on Thursday, at 16:27, measured 5 on the Richter scale and its epicenter was Dasaki Achnas. An official of the Geologi
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Shallow magnitude 4.3 earthquake rattles CreteFri, 22 Jan 2021 09:38:00 +0100.

A shallow magnitude 4.3 earthquake was reported on Friday morning near the port city of Sitia in the Greek island of Crete. The National Observatory of Athens said the quake hit at 8:57 am local time at a shallow depth of 10 km. The tremor
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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),