M 4.6 in Philippines on 28 Dec 2015 01:31 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 1077217
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 33.67 Km
Lat/Lon: 6.1395 , 126.1616
Event Date: 28 Dec 2015 01:31 UTC
28 Dec 2015 09:31 Local
Exposed Population:
949610 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Dec 2015 02:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 236 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

Top Asian News 10:38 p.m. GMTFri, 01 Jan 2016 00:14:00 +0100.

On a New Year's Eve haunted by fears of terrorism, a spectacular fire in one of Dubai's tall towers captured the world's attention. With few exceptions, the celebrations rolled on, and while fire still raged, the Dubai Media office declared
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Top Asian News 8:48 p.m. GMTThu, 31 Dec 2015 22:43:00 +0100.

On a New Year's Eve haunted by fears of terrorism, a spectacular fire in one of Dubai's tall towers captured the world's attention. With few exceptions, the celebrations rolled on, and while fire still raged, the Dubai Media office declared
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Emperor speaks of ‘pain’ over Tohoku evacuees still living in temporar ... Thu, 31 Dec 2015 22:15:00 +0100.

Emperor Akihito on Friday expressed his hope for the reconstruction of Tohoku as 2016 marks five years since a massive earthquake and tsunami wrecked towns, villages and farmland across the region. “It pains me to think that there are still
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Chilean architecture stands test of earthquakesThu, 31 Dec 2015 22:07:00 +0100.

People work by an antiseismic sink in a building in Santiago. Chile, the most seismic country in the world, has had to be provided with infrastructure and housing able to minimize the damage caused by frequent and strong earthquakes, their
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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),