M 5.8 in Greece on 18 May 2020 23:22 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 1218653
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 34.2018 , 25.526
Event Date: 18 May 2020 23:22 UTC
19 May 2020 01:22 Local
Exposed Population: About 38000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 May 2020 04:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.5 (Greece)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70009k7k Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.69  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 27 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

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Magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes central Mediterranean Sea: EMSCThu, 21 May 2020 06:16:00 +0200.

(Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck in the central Mediterranean Sea region early on Thursday, according to the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC). The epicentre of the quake, about 240 km (149 miles) south-wes
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EMSC: Magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes central Mediterranean SeaThu, 21 May 2020 05:23:00 +0200.

. PARIS, May 21 — An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck in the central Mediterranean Sea region early today, according to the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC). The epicentre of the quake, about 240 km south-west of Greece
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EMSC: Magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes central Mediterranean SeaThu, 21 May 2020 04:25:00 +0200.

. PARIS, May 21 — An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck in the central Mediterranean Sea region early today, according to the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC). The epicentre of the quake, about 240 km south-west of Greece
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),