M 4.5 in Cyprus on 05 Dec 2024 20:53 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 1456172
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 36.4 Km
Lat/Lon: 34.6086 , 33.9473
Event Date: 05 Dec 2024 20:53 UTC
05 Dec 2024 22:53 Local
Exposed Population:
5 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 06 Dec 2024 14:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Cyprus)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000nwak 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.
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Latest media headlines

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Civil Defence issues earthquake preparedness guidelines 12/6/2024 3:15:00 PM.

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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),