M 4.9 in Philippines on 11 Feb 2017 20:40 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 1105339
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 47.22 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.0789 , 126.4368
Event Date: 11 Feb 2017 20:40 UTC
12 Feb 2017 04:40 Local
Exposed Population:
1420000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Feb 2017 22:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
us20008j80 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Palace slams NPA attack despite its cease-fire 2/15/2017 6:32:00 PM.

In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto C. Abella described the attack as “a clear violation of the armed group’s cease-fire declaration,” adding that state forces will continue in its humanitarian assistance and disaster relief o
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The Day in Photos, 15 February 2017 2/15/2017 5:04:00 PM.

'The Power of We' Members of different civil society organizations link arms during a protest in relation to the 31st anniversary of the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution, at the Bantayog ng Mga Bayani on Wednesday. A coalition of 60 organi
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Armm provides relief aid to Surigao quake victims 2/15/2017 1:22:00 PM.

THE Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Armm), through its Humanitarian and Emergency Action Response Team (Heart), has sent relief assistance to earthquake victims in Surigao City. Armm-Heart is a convergence of agencies that oversees di
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Philippines: QRCS First Humanitarian Organization to Reach Surigao Cit.. 2/15/2017 12:30:00 PM.

February 15th , 2017 ? Doha: In response to the deadly earthquake that hit Mindanao, the Philippines, on Friday, Qatar Red Crescent (QRCS) has allocated $40,000 from its Contingency Fund for a quick relief intervention. A team of QRCS's Mis
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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),