M 5 in Philippines on 29 Jan 2016 02:29 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 1079553
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 19.2734 , 121.165
Event Date: 29 Jan 2016 02:29 UTC
29 Jan 2016 10:29 Local
Exposed Population:
About 84036 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Jan 2016 02:51 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.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 358 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Researchers find source of 1964 devastating Alaska tsunamiTue, 02 Feb 2016 02:21:00 +0100.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) " Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey have solved a 50-year natural science mystery: the undersea source of tsunami waves that devastated a remote Alaska village following the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake. Und
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Researchers find source of 1964 devastating Alaska tsunamiTue, 02 Feb 2016 01:39:00 +0100.

Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey have solved a 50-year natural science mystery: the undersea source of tsunami waves that devastated a remote Alaska village following the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake. Underwater landslides at dep
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Researchers find source of 1964 devastating Alaska tsunamiTue, 02 Feb 2016 01:18:00 +0100.

Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey have solved a 50-year natural science mystery: the undersea source of tsunami waves that devastated a remote Alaska village following the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake. Underwater landslides at dep
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Supervisan playas del Santa y CasmaTue, 02 Feb 2016 00:19:00 +0100.

Región Áncash. Cinco playas ubicadas en las provincias ancashinas del Santa y Casma fueron supervisadas con el fin de evaluar la situación de la disposición de los residuos sólidos, parqueo vehicular, actividades comerciales e implementació
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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),