M 6.3 in Philippines on 23 Sep 2016 22:53 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 1094551
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 62.51 Km
Lat/Lon: 6.5704 , 126.4846
Event Date: 23 Sep 2016 22:53 UTC
24 Sep 2016 06:53 Local
Exposed Population: 680000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Sep 2016 23:15 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 1.4 1.4
us10006s4v 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 645 | About casualties: 26 | Last hour: 0

'Garbarge' delivers tonnes of marine debris recovered from B.C. coastTue, 27 Sep 2016 21:44:00 +0200.

A vessel dubbed the "garbarge" delivers a payload of marine debris that was collected at remote Vancouver Island beaches over the past seven months. Sept. 27, 2016. (CTV) CTV Vancouver Published Tuesday, September 27, 2016 12:15PM PDT A b
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Top Asian News 6:48 p.m. GMTTue, 27 Sep 2016 21:35:00 +0200.

NEW DELHI (AP) — New Delhi will not participate in a meeting of South Asian nations to be held in Islamabad in November, its foreign ministry said in a statement late Tuesday. The statement didn't name Pakistan but tensions between the neig
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Top Asian News 6:41 p.m. GMTTue, 27 Sep 2016 21:02:00 +0200.

NEW DELHI (AP) — New Delhi will not participate in a meeting of South Asian nations to be held in Islamabad in November, its foreign ministry said in a statement late Tuesday. The statement didn't name Pakistan but tensions between the neig
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Cancelan alerta de tsunami en todo el litoral peruanoTue, 27 Sep 2016 20:21:00 +0200.

. La Dirección de Hidrografía y Navegación de la Marina de Guerra del Perú canceló la alerta de tsunami en todo el litoral tras el sismo de 7.8 grados registrado en Ecuador. No obstante recomendó a la población no acercarse a las playas po
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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),