M 4.9 in Philippines on 20 Jan 2021 06:53 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 1252337
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 87.78 Km
Lat/Lon: 10.4901 , 125.5798
Event Date: 20 Jan 2021 06:53 UTC
20 Jan 2021 14:53 Local
Exposed Population:
1840000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Jan 2021 07:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000d1k7 Scaled population (vector) 5.73  
  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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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 227 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

PHIVOLCS: No tsunami threat in Philippines due to Antarctica earthquak ... Sun, 24 Jan 2021 02:46:00 +0100.

. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology on Sunday said there is no threat of tsunami to the country after an earthquake struck Antarctica. “A major earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 occurred in South Shetland
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Antarctique. Fort séisme de magnitude 7 près d’une base chilienneSun, 24 Jan 2021 02:30:00 +0100.

Un fort séisme de magnitude 7 s’est produit samedi soir en Antarctique près de la base chilienne Eduardo Frei, qui a été mise en alerte d’évacuation pour risque de tsunami.
Magnitude 7.1 quake shakes MindanaoFri, 22 Jan 2021 18:05:00 +0100.

MANILA, Philippines No major damage was reported after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck off the coast of Davao Occidental on Thursday night, Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) officer-in-charge and Science Unders
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Indonesia, Philippines - Earthquake (BNPB, GDACS, USGS) (ECHO Daily Fl ... Fri, 22 Jan 2021 15:14:00 +0100.

Countries: Indonesia, Philippines Source: European Commission's Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations An earthquake of 7.0 M at a depth of 96 km occurred offshore between southern Philippines and
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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),