M 4.6 in Philippines on 01 Aug 2015 15:17 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 1061968
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 35.95 Km
Lat/Lon: 7.6522 , 125.5081
Event Date: 01 Aug 2015 15:17 UTC
01 Aug 2015 23:17 Local
Exposed Population:
5511831 people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Aug 2015 17:03 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
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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Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 285 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

Homeless in path of a storm would get city, Red Cross aidWed, 05 Aug 2015 15:07:00 +0200.

. It didn’t happen this time, but that doesn’t mean it won’t ever happen. If a big hurricane comes ashore or a tsunami races at us from the Pacific, where are the hundreds of Kakaako homeless going to go? All those people living on the sid
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06:34 Sismo de 5.8 grados Richter sacude a ChiapasWed, 05 Aug 2015 14:32:00 +0200.

CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 5 de agosto.- Un sismo de 5.8 grados Richter sacudió a Chiapas este miércoles. E l Centro de Alerta de Tsunamis de la Secretaría de Marina (CAT-Semar) reportó que, de acuerdo con la información preliminar del sismo, no se
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Tokyo Olympics logo designer says he’s ‘shocked’ by plagiarism claimWed, 05 Aug 2015 12:55:00 +0200.

The designer of the emblem for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games said Wednesday that he was “shocked” and “pained” that a Belgian theater logo designer had accused him of plagiarism. Kenjiro Sano, a 43-year-old Japanese art director, told a pack
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Ideensuche für FukushimaWed, 05 Aug 2015 12:26:00 +0200.

„Ich war zu Hause und hatte plötzlich riesige Angst. Alles fing an zu wackeln, die Schränke stürzten um und dann kam das Wasser …“ Der 16-jährige Taiga Yamaguchi wird still, als er an die Ereignisse vom 11. März 2011 im Nordosten Japans den
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),