M 4.8 in Philippines on 23 Dec 2016 17:35 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 1101622
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 47.83 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.9202 , 126.3184
Event Date: 23 Dec 2016 17:35 UTC
24 Dec 2016 01:35 Local
Exposed Population:
786553 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Dec 2016 21:25 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007mbj 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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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),