M 4.5 in Philippines on 16 Apr 2021 12:17 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 1264967
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 163.21 Km
Lat/Lon: 4.7902 , 125.5193
Event Date: 16 Apr 2021 12:17 UTC
16 Apr 2021 20:17 Local
Exposed Population:
About 79000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Apr 2021 12:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000e21i Scaled population (vector) 4.34  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.18  
  INFORM_normalised 0.89  
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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),