M 4.6 in Greece on 08 May 2022 14:30 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 1321774
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.3364 , 23.3814
Event Date: 08 May 2022 14:30 UTC
08 May 2022 17:30 Local
Exposed Population:
4.5 million in 100km
Inserted at: 08 May 2022 15:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.5 (Greece)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000h7y3 Scaled population (vector) 6.79  
  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

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),