M 4.5 in Greece on 28 Feb 2021 12:26 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 1257865
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.7983 , 20.7291
Event Date: 28 Feb 2021 12:26 UTC
28 Feb 2021 14:26 Local
Exposed Population:
370000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Feb 2021 12:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.5 (Greece)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000dec9 Scaled population (vector) 5.77  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.61  
  INFORM_normalised 0.69  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 238 | About casualties: 16 | Last hour: 0

World Powerful earthquake shakes central Greece, no casualtiesThu, 04 Mar 2021 10:37:00 +0100.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck central Greece on Wednesday, sending people rushing from their homes and damaging a number of houses and cars but drawing no immediate reports of casualties. The quake, which was felt across the country
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Miles de griegos se ven obligados a pasar la noche en carpas y coches ... Thu, 04 Mar 2021 09:51:00 +0100.

Grecia toda sigue con el susto en el cuerpo y busca poco a poco tratar de recuperar la normalidad. Así, miles de vecinos de los municipios cercanos a la ciudad de Lárisa tuvieron que pasar la noche en carpas, automóviles u hoteles tras el t
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Grèce : un séisme fait 11 blessés et endommage une centaine d'édificesThu, 04 Mar 2021 08:45:00 +0100.

Un séisme a secoué mercredi la région de Larissa, grande ville du centre de la Grèce, provoquant des scènes de panique dans la population notamment à Damasi, l'un des villages les plus touchés avec Messohori et Tyrnavos. La secousse telluri
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Grèce : un séisme fait onze blessés et endommage une centaine d'édific ... Thu, 04 Mar 2021 08:22:00 +0100.

Un séisme a secoué mercredi la région de Larissa, grande ville du centre de la Grèce, provoquant des scènes de panique dans la population notamment à Damasi, l'un des villages les plus touchés avec Messohori et Tyrnavos. La secousse telluri
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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),