M 4.8 in Greece on 22 Sep 2024 09:50 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 1446718
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.3245 , 24.2372
Event Date: 22 Sep 2024 09:50 UTC
22 Sep 2024 12:50 Local
Exposed Population:
5 thousand in MMI&>=IV
Inserted at: 22 Sep 2024 10:23 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.5 (Greece)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ntn7 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. 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),