M 5.5 in Philippines on 04 Dec 2023 01:07 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 1403802
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 55.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 8.4655 , 126.8505
Event Date: 04 Dec 2023 01:07 UTC
04 Dec 2023 09:07 Local
Exposed Population: 1.1 million in MMI IV
Inserted at: 04 Dec 2023 23:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000lg0q Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),