M 4.5 in Philippines on 26 May 2018 12:27 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 1144202
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 87.02 Km
Lat/Lon: 6.0192 , 125.3845
Event Date: 26 May 2018 12:27 UTC
26 May 2018 20:27 Local
Exposed Population:
2980000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 May 2018 13:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000ecpf Scaled population (vector) 6.77  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.18  
  INFORM_normalised 0.89  
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Latest media headlines

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The Four Baroque Churches of the PhilippinesTue, 22 May 2018 15:17:00 +0200.

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Gone to Heaven, beloved Brother Marc MauriceFri, 18 May 2018 06:26:00 +0200.

No self-consciousness, black as a brother can be, chubby and full of good cheer, Brother Maurice was most beloved in our community. His generosity was without limit; if 12 requests were made of him for the day - whether it be driving a truc
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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),