M 4.9 in Philippines on 27 Jul 2016 11:56 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 1090763
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 10.952 , 124.613
Event Date: 27 Jul 2016 11:56 UTC
27 Jul 2016 19:56 Local
Exposed Population:
4648379 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Jul 2016 12:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006i2i 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: 538 | About casualties: 37 | Last hour: 0

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China issues yellow alert for typhoon NidaSun, 31 Jul 2016 08:31:00 +0200.

BEIJING, July 31 -- Typhoon Nida is expected to hit south China's Guangdong Province in the daytime of Tuesday, said the National Meteorological Center (NMC) in a yellow alert. Nida, the fourth typhoon to hit China this year, was detected 3
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Storm alert signal is raised in Luzon island as Typhoon Nida is expect ... Sun, 31 Jul 2016 08:26:00 +0200.

EPA FRANCIS R. MALASIG Philippines/BACOOR 31/7/2016 09:21 epa05449523 Filipino children wade on rising sea water at a coastal village in the town of Bacoor, Cavite province, Philipines, 31 July 2016. National Disaster Risk Reduction and Man
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),