M 4.7 in Philippines on 08 Apr 2017 15:23 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 1109776
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 56.73 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.5928 , 120.764
Event Date: 08 Apr 2017 15:23 UTC
08 Apr 2017 23:23 Local
Exposed Population:
10560000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Apr 2017 16:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
us10008fv3 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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),