M 5.9 in Philippines on 13 Apr 2016 18:21 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 1084310
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 7.8468 , 121.9216
Event Date: 13 Apr 2016 18:21 UTC
14 Apr 2016 02:21 Local
Exposed Population: 1080000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Apr 2016 18:45 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.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 791 | About casualties: 65 | Last hour: 0

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The world's strongest earthquakes since 1900Sun, 17 Apr 2016 06:18:00 +0200.

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28 muertos por fuerte terremoto en EcuadorSun, 17 Apr 2016 06:15:00 +0200.

El fuerte sismo de 7,6 grados que sacudió este sábado principalmente la costa de Ecuador, deja por ahora un total de 28 muertos, según un balance preliminar anunciado por el vicepresidente Jorge Glas , que declaró el estado de excepción en
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),