M 4.5 in Greece on 20 Aug 2025 15:27 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 1496694
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 48.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 34.9568 , 23.3186
Event Date: 20 Aug 2025 15:27 UTC
20 Aug 2025 17:27 Local
Exposed Population:
160 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 21 Aug 2025 01:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Greece)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000r2c5 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, 2025. 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.

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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),