M 5 in Philippines on 17 Oct 2016 21:45 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 1095941
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 64.99 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.9801 , 126.1558
Event Date: 17 Oct 2016 21:45 UTC
18 Oct 2016 05:45 Local
Exposed Population:
843244 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Oct 2016 22:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007ey2 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

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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),