M 4.8 in Philippines on 21 May 2016 11:14 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 1086684
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 40.01 Km
Lat/Lon: 15.0067 , 122.0514
Event Date: 21 May 2016 11:14 UTC
21 May 2016 19:14 Local
Exposed Population:
694217 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 May 2016 11:36 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
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: 393 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

Cum arată capsula care te poate salva de...Wed, 25 May 2016 10:29:00 +0200.

Pentru calamităţile naturale, precum tsunami sau un cutremur, există foarte puţine locuri unde se poate găsi un adăpost, iar spre rezolvarea acestei probleme, inginerii au inventat capsula de supravieţuire, care reprezintă un sistem persona
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Todavía se desconoce la ubicación exacta de 600 toneladas de combustib ... Wed, 25 May 2016 10:01:00 +0200.

El equipo de limpieza de la planta nuclear de Fukushima no dispone de información sobre la ubicación exacta de unas 600 toneladas del combustible radiactivo de uranio que se fugó de sus tres reactores nucleares en 2011 después de que un fue
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Neuništiv seksipil Petre NemcoveWed, 25 May 2016 09:44:00 +0200.

Češka ‘modelka’ s ovih fotki prava je Superžena – ne samo da ima 36 godina i izgleda kao da ima 16, već je i prije 12 godina preživjela razorni tsunami dok je ljetovala na Tajlandu. Strašna je nesreća zadesila našu Petru ne tako davne 2004
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Trevor Hancock: Retiring at age 65 might not be best for youWed, 25 May 2016 09:11:00 +0200.

I’m in my 68th year, still going strong and intending to keep working for some years. Blame it on good genes. But also, why would I stop when they pay me and I am having fun? I realize not everyone is in good health at my age or younger, no
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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),