M 6.2 in Philippines on 15 May 2014 10:16 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1031754
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 13.99 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.3763 , 122.0681
Event Date: 15 May 2014 10:16 UTC
15 May 2014 18:16 Local
Exposed Population:
544603 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 May 2014 12:13 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 1.2 1.2
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
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Latest media headlines

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Restoration expert visits Tacloban 5/16/2014 2:35:00 PM.

A LEADING international expert on preservation and restoration of heritage sites visited the Philippines on May 13 to discuss the restoration of sites damaged by the onslaught of Typhoon Yolanda in November last year. Dr. Stefano de Caro, d
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),