M 4.5 in Philippines on 22 Jul 2018 06:22 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 1151120
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 42.52 Km
Lat/Lon: 19.5787 , 121.743
Event Date: 22 Jul 2018 06:22 UTC
22 Jul 2018 14:22 Local
Exposed Population:
About 18000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Jul 2018 07:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000gb2g Scaled population (vector) 4.14  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.18  
  INFORM_normalised 0.89  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 43 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Geologist suggests more tsunami siren installed in TawauTue, 24 Jul 2018 14:43:00 +0200.

TAWAU, July 24 ( Bernama) -- Universiti Malaysia Sabah geologist Prof Dr Felix Tongkul has suggested for more tsunami siren to be installed along the coast in Tawau because of the risk of being threatened by the seismic seawave due to its l
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Indonesia: ASEAN Weekly Disaster Update, 16 – 22 July 2018Mon, 23 Jul 2018 10:32:00 +0200.

Regional Summary of Week 29 and Outlook for Week 30. 1) Recorded events in Week 29 are still largely hydro-meteorological in nature due to monsoon low with Tropical Storm Henry/Son-Tinh, Tropical Depression (TD) Inday and TD Josie, which ca
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2 hurt, hundreds flee as tornado hits Davao CityMon, 23 Jul 2018 04:56:00 +0200.

DAVAO CITY – A tornado swept through a coastal village i n this cit y on Sunday evening, toppling trees and tearing roofs that injured two people, police and disaster officials said. Over 300 people fled to the village covered court as the
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QC adopts updated disaster contingency plan for ‘Big One’Fri, 20 Jul 2018 11:45:00 +0200.

MANILA -- The Quezon City Council on Friday passed a resolution adopting the updated “Quezon City Contingency Plan for Earthquake” in preparation for the so-called “Big One”. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs)
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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),