M 4.5 in Italy on 18 Dec 2021 10:34 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 1302288
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 31.99 Km
Lat/Lon: 45.6694 , 9.5249
Event Date: 18 Dec 2021 10:34 UTC
18 Dec 2021 11:34 Local
Exposed Population:
11.2 million in 100km
Inserted at: 18 Dec 2021 11:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.4 (Italy)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Italy= 2.4; Switzerland= 0.9

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
us6000gdds Scaled population (vector) 7.41  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0.29  
  INFORM_normalised 0.68  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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), INGV (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),