M 5.6 in Philippines on 12 Mar 2016 04:00 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 1082314
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.1737 , 120.277
Event Date: 12 Mar 2016 04:00 UTC
12 Mar 2016 12:00 Local
Exposed Population:
1406316 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Mar 2016 04:21 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 1 1
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.
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Latest media headlines

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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),