M 4.5 in Philippines on 14 Apr 2017 11:20 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 1110229
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 7.5122 , 124.8329
Event Date: 14 Apr 2017 11:20 UTC
14 Apr 2017 19:20 Local
Exposed Population:
8230000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Apr 2017 12:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008hj5 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Philippines: Asia and the Pacific: Weekly Regional Humanitarian Snapsh.. 4/17/2017 1:11:00 PM.

PHILIPPINES. On 12 April, a 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck in Lanao del Sur province (Mindanao) affecting about 2,800 people in the town of Wao. No casualties have been reported. To date, 652 houses were damaged. Regional disaster manageme
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Indonesia: ASEAN Weekly Disaster Update, 10 - 16 April 2017 4/17/2017 9:08:00 AM.

VIET NAM. Storm Storm hit three communes in Ky Son District, Nghe An Province, damaging 70 houses and injuring 2 people. INDONESIA. Flood Aceh Province was surrounded by flood. In Southeast Aceh District, flashflood has caused 2 deaths and
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Philippines: Philippines: Surigao earthquake - DREF operation update n.. 4/17/2017 5:06:00 AM.

worth CHF 127,672. http://reliefweb.int/node/DREF allocation 5 March – a magnitude 5.9 aftershock strikes the area. Since the M 6.7 earthquake, almost 300 aftershocks have been reported. A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck off the coast of no
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),