M 4.5 in Greece on 21 Mar 2023 00:20 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 1365892
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.9974 , 21.131
Event Date: 21 Mar 2023 00:20 UTC
21 Mar 2023 02:20 Local
Exposed Population:
6 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 21 Mar 2023 00:53 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.5 (Greece)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000jljx Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 7 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Hapag-Lloyd: Operational and Customer Service Updates for Europe2023-03-22T23:53+0100.

Highlights: France – terminals closed for 72 hours, from March 21 to 24, 2023. Please refer to information under France for additional details and all affected vessels here. Türkiye – the Iskenderun terminal is closed due to the earthquake.
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La Grèce et la Turquie renouent avec la «diplomatie du tremblement de ... 2023-03-22T13:12+0100.

Les faits - Les Grecs seront appelés aux urnes pour des élections législatives anticipées en mai, a déclaré mardi le Premier ministre Kyriakos Mitsotakis alors que le mandat de quatre ans de son gouvernement doit prendre fin en juillet. Des
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),