Overall Green Earthquake alert in Mindanao, Philippines on 12 Apr 2014 21:50 UTC

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M 4.9 in Mindanao, Philippines on 12 Apr 2014 21:50 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 1029561
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	62.65 Km
Lat/Lon:	9.6251 , 125.3342
Event Date:	12 Apr 2014 21:50 UTC 13 Apr 2014 05:50 Local
Exposed Population:	2142583 people within 100km
Inserted at:	12 Apr 2014 22:11 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.3		0
	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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Trzęsienie ziemi na Pacyfiku. 7,5 stopnia. Zagrożenie tsunamiSun, 13 Apr 2014 16:14:00 +0200.

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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