M 4.7 in Philippines on 17 Feb 2017 09:18 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 1105770
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 35.26 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.8335 , 125.3807
Event Date: 17 Feb 2017 09:18 UTC
17 Feb 2017 17:18 Local
Exposed Population:
2190000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Feb 2017 10:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us20008ken Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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World briefs 2/21/2017 12:13:00 AM.

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Philippines: No letup in Red Cross relief efforts in earthquake-ravage.. 2/20/2017 9:39:00 PM.

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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),