M 4.6 in Philippines on 27 Apr 2015 12:04 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 1053119
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 149.83 Km
Lat/Lon: 6.0508 , 126.0935
Event Date: 27 Apr 2015 12:04 UTC
27 Apr 2015 20:04 Local
Exposed Population:
1049938 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Apr 2015 12:27 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -1 -1
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),