M 4.5 in Greece on 22 Dec 2024 11:53 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 1458872
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 33.8 Km
Lat/Lon: 34.1795 , 24.95
Event Date: 22 Dec 2024 11:53 UTC
22 Dec 2024 13:53 Local
Exposed Population:
50 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 22 Dec 2024 12:29 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Greece)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000p0qx Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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),