M 4.6 in Greece on 08 Dec 2021 07:49 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 1300506
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.0464 , 20.6039
Event Date: 08 Dec 2021 07:49 UTC
08 Dec 2021 09:49 Local
Exposed Population:
660 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 08 Dec 2021 09:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Albania)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Albania= 4.2; Greece= 2.5

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gaeg Scaled population (vector) 5.88  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.89  
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),