M 6.2 in Philippines on 16 Feb 2013 04:37 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 122735
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 98.2 Km
Lat/Lon: 5.7587 , 125.838
Event Date: 16 Feb 2013 04:37 UTC
16 Feb 2013 12:37 Local
Exposed Population:
1630803 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Feb 2013 04:59 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.6 0.6
usc000f8be Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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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),