M 7.3 in Philippines on 10 Jan 2017 06:13 UTC

Event summary

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

Earthquake Magnitude: 7.3M
Depth: 612.71 Km
Lat/Lon: 4.4634 , 122.575
Event Date: 10 Jan 2017 06:13 UTC
10 Jan 2017 14:13 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Source: NEIC us10007s9c
Inserted at: 10 Jan 2017 07:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score
1.1 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us10007s9c Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake 1 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 earthquake 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

Episode Timeline

IDAlertScoreDateMag, DepthMMI*Population**Tsunami risk***Delay (hh:mm)Source
1153497 0 10 Jan 2017 06:13 7M, 632km N/A No people affected (in 100km) 0m (at 00:00) 00:06 GEOFON
1153498 0 10 Jan 2017 06:13 6.9M, 622km N/A No people affected (in 100km) 0m (at 00:00) 00:07 NTWC    
1153501 0 10 Jan 2017 06:13 6.9M, 629.52km N/A No people affected (in 100km) 0m (at 00:00) 00:19 NEIC
1153503 0 10 Jan 2017 06:13 7.3M, 612.71km 3.03 No people affected (in 100km) 0m (at 00:00) 00:46 NEIC
The episode that generated the alert; the next major evaluations beyond 12 hours will not trigger additional alerts.
The episode that has the last updated information.
* The max MMI detected for sources having shakemaps;
** The population detected in MMI>=7 for episode with shakemap or in a 100km radius;
*** The tsunami max height.

Exposed population

The earthquake happened in Philippines , Region of Western Mindanao (population 3,159,000) .

Radius Population
100 km no people
75 km no people
50 km no people
20 km no people
10 km no people
5 km no people
2 km no people

Affected Provinces

Region Province Country Population
Western Mindanao Philippines 3.2 million people
Central Mindanao Philippines 3.2 million people
Southern Mindanao Philippines 4.5 million people
Sulawesi Utara Indonesia 2.7 million people
Sabah Malaysia 1.6 million people
Sulawesi Tengah Indonesia 1.8 million people
Northern Mindanao Philippines 3.5 million people

Critical infrastructure

Airports, ports, nuclear plants and hydrodams at risk, if affected, are listed below.

More information

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