M 4.6 in Greece on 16 Jan 2022 12:26 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 1306197
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.0695 , 24.3299
Event Date: 16 Jan 2022 12:26 UTC
16 Jan 2022 14:26 Local
Exposed Population:
230 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 16 Jan 2022 12:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.5 (Greece)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000gcfr Scaled population (vector) 4.8  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.61  
  INFORM_normalised 0.69  
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Latest media headlines

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The earthquake in the sea area south of Athos was felt in northern Greece. Credit: Geodynamic Institute of Athens. An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale was recorded on Sunday, 23 km southwest of Athos peninsula and 229 km north-
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The earthquake in the sea area south of Athos was felt in northern Greece . Credit: Geodynamic Institute of Athens. An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale was recorded on Sunday, 23 km southwest of Athos peninsula and 229 km north
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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),