M 5.3 in Philippines on 18 Jul 2015 15:46 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 1060709
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 24.47 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.7458 , 121.0641
Event Date: 18 Jul 2015 15:46 UTC
18 Jul 2015 23:46 Local
Exposed Population:
920138 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Jul 2015 16:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.6 0.6
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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 311 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Lo tsunami delle irregolarità di Toshiba travolge il CeoWed, 22 Jul 2015 14:08:00 +0200.

Da un report indipendente emerge che l’azienda ha inventato più di un miliardo di fatturato extra negli ultimi anni. Le dimissioni del Ceo di Toshiba e di vari top manager Lo scandalo dei conti di Toshiba porta alle dimissioni del Ceo Hisao
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Millions displaced as a result of climate-related disasters, building ... Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:07:00 +0200.

In the last seven years, an estimated one person every second has been displaced by a disaster, with 19.3 million people forced to flee their homes in 2014 alone. In 2014, 17.5 million people were forced to flee their homes by disasters bro
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Can your city survive the apocalypse?Wed, 22 Jul 2015 13:10:00 +0200.

Hurricane Sandy underlined the urgency by ruthlessly exposing New York's structural weaknesses, paralyzing power, water and transport networks as the lights went off across Manhattan. California also suffered as historic droughts settled in
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Tonga not ready to respond to any tsunami threatWed, 22 Jul 2015 10:34:00 +0200.

The director of Tonga's Meteorological Service says the country lacks the capacity and resources to respond quickly to a tsunami. Ofa Fa'anunu raised his concerns during the Pacific Meteorological Council which is underway in Nuku'alofa. Ra
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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),