M 5.5 in Greece on 08 Mar 2026 03:32 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 1527959
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.6838 , 20.736
Event Date: 08 Mar 2026 03:32 UTC
08 Mar 2026 05:32 Local
Exposed Population: 1 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 08 Mar 2026 03:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.5 (Greece)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us7000s2x6 Scaled population (raster) 1.96  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.69  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),