M 6 in Greece from 17 Nov 2015 07:10 UTC to 07:10

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1072555
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 5 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.6461 , 20.531
Event Date: 17 Nov 2015 07:10 UTC
17 Nov 2015 09:10 Local
Exposed Population:
525356 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Nov 2015 07:13 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NOAIG 0.5 0.5
26F03128 Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),