M 4.5 in Poland on 21 Oct 2025 15:35 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 1506358
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 5 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.6174 , 16.1295
Event Date: 21 Oct 2025 15:35 UTC
21 Oct 2025 17:35 Local
Exposed Population:
40 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 21 Oct 2025 16:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.8 (Poland)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000rihu Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.73  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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),