M 4.8 in Greece on 01 Feb 2021 06:00 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 1254011
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.89 , 26.0215
Event Date: 01 Feb 2021 06:00 UTC
01 Feb 2021 08:00 Local
Exposed Population:
800000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Feb 2021 06:41 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
us6000ddkp Scaled population (vector) 5.42  
  C1 earthquake 1.37  
  C2 earthquake -0.11  
  Country Vulnerability 0.27  
  INFORM_normalised 0.77  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 38 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

A 4.3-magnitude earthquake strikes 69 kilometers east of Chipping, Zim ... Mon, 01 Feb 2021 20:18:00 +0100.

17:15 PM | By: EARTHQUAKEMONITOR. 4.3 Earthquake 2021-02-01 18:55:31 SAST (GMT + 02: 00) The CGS reported a 4.3 magnitude earthquake in Zimbabwe near Chipinge, Manicaland, just 17 minutes ago. The earthquake struck early in the evening of M
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5.2-magnitude quake hits 7 km WSW of Polichnitos, Greece -- USGSMon, 01 Feb 2021 17:31:00 +0100.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted 7 km west southwest of Polichnitos, Greece at 0835 GMT on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. BEIJING (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 1st Feb, 2021 ) :An earthquake with a m
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Grèce: séisme de magnitude 5 au large de LesbosMon, 01 Feb 2021 15:35:00 +0100.

Athènes – Un tremblement de terre de magnitude 5 sur l’échelle de Richter s’est produit lundi matin au large de l’île grecque de Lesbos, a annoncé l’Observatoire géodynamique d’Athènes. Le tremblement de terre qui s’est produit à 4H46 GMT (
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Moderate earthquake of magnitude 4.8 just reported 47 km southwest of ... Mon, 01 Feb 2021 14:48:00 +0100.

A shallow magnitude 4.8 earthquake was reported early afternoon near Mytilene, Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece. According to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), the quake hit on Monday 1 February 2021 at 3:10 pm local time at a s
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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),