M 4.6 in Philippines on 15 May 2021 03:04 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 1268822
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 111.81 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.7776 , 120.8215
Event Date: 15 May 2021 03:04 UTC
15 May 2021 11:04 Local
Exposed Population:
23120000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 May 2021 03:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000e3ay Scaled population (vector) 7.14  
  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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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),