M 5.1 in Greece on 18 Dec 2021 05:16 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 1302262
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 62.42 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.074 , 23.2412
Event Date: 18 Dec 2021 05:16 UTC
18 Dec 2021 07:16 Local
Exposed Population:
170 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 18 Dec 2021 05:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.5 (Greece)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gdc8 Scaled population (vector) 4.52  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.61  
  INFORM_normalised 0.69  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),