M 5.4 in Philippines on 15 Aug 2016 11:32 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 1091908
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 49.4 Km
Lat/Lon: 10.8833 , 122.1769
Event Date: 15 Aug 2016 11:32 UTC
15 Aug 2016 19:32 Local
Exposed Population:
5889751 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Aug 2016 11:54 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006dwi 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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),