M 4.7 in Croatia on 30 Dec 2020 05:26 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 1249646
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 45.5307 , 16.1688
Event Date: 30 Dec 2020 05:26 UTC
30 Dec 2020 06:26 Local
Exposed Population:
2840000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Dec 2020 06:40 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.5 (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Bosnia & Herzegovina= 4.5; Croatia= 3.1; Hungary= 2.1; Slovenia= 1.7

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
us6000d497 Scaled population (vector) 6.58  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.93  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 532 | About casualties: 93 | Last hour: 0

Day of Mourning for earthquake victims marked in CroatiaSun, 03 Jan 2021 02:01:00 +0100.

A fountain is projected with an image of earthquake-affected town Petrinja on the occasion of Day of Mourning for earthquake victims in Zagreb, Croatia, on Jan. 2, 2020. A 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit central Croatia on Tuesday, killing sev
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Day of Mourning for earthquake victims marked in CroatiaSun, 03 Jan 2021 01:50:00 +0100.

A fountain is projected with an image of earthquake-affected town Petrinja on the occasion of Day of Mourning for earthquake victims in Zagreb, Croatia, on Jan. 2, 2020. A 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit central Croatia on Tuesday, killing sev
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Day of Mourning for earthquake victims marked in CroatiaSun, 03 Jan 2021 01:37:00 +0100.

A fountain is projected with an image of earthquake-affected town Petrinja on the occasion of Day of Mourning for earthquake victims in Zagreb, Croatia, on Jan. 2, 2020. A 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit central Croatia on Tuesday, killing sev
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Croatia's Most Famous Beach, Zlatni Rat: A Heart for Petrinja?Sat, 02 Jan 2021 18:57:00 +0100.

January 2, 2021 - Nature is behaving very unpredictably at the moment in Croatia with the Petrinja earthquakes - the latest example a heart for Petrinja on Croatia's most famous and iconic beach, Zlatni Rat in Bol. Nothing seems normal at t
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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),