M 4.8 in Philippines on 11 Feb 2017 09:11 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 1105303
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 52.84 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.8341 , 125.5406
Event Date: 11 Feb 2017 09:11 UTC
11 Feb 2017 17:11 Local
Exposed Population:
1970000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Feb 2017 09:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
us20008j5p Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 580 | About casualties: 172 | Last hour: 0

AFP slams Reds over 'attack' on quake-hit SurigaoWed, 15 Feb 2017 08:51:00 +0100.

THE Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) condemned Wednesday the New People's Army for failing to keep its promise to spare Surigao provinces, which was hit by magnitude 6.7 earthquake last week, from atrocities. On Tuesday evening, NPA re
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La Chine est prête à aider les Philippines frappées par un séismeWed, 15 Feb 2017 08:49:00 +0100.

02-15-2017 14:32. BEIJING, 14 février (Xinhua) -- La Chine a déclaré mardi qu'elle aiderait les Philippines, après qu'une province du sud a été frappée par un séisme la semaine dernière. La Société de la Croix-Rouge de la Chine offrira 50.
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Kalifornien Zehntausende Anwohner am Oroville-Stausee dürfen zurück in ... Wed, 15 Feb 2017 08:37:00 +0100.

Viele Bewohner, die das Gebiet um den kalifornischen Oroville-Stausee aus Angst vor einer möglichen Flutkatastrophe verlassen mussten, dürfen zurück in ihre Häuser. Dies gaben die Behörden am Dienstagnachmittag (Ortszeit) bekannt. Die Anwoh
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TEPCO reconoce haber dado información inexacta sobre sus planes para r ... Wed, 15 Feb 2017 08:35:00 +0100.

La compañía ha confirmado que uno de los edificios carecía de las medidas necesarias ante terremotos, agregando que no pasó ninguna de las siete pruebas de resistencia. Previamente, había indicado que el edificio había suspendido cinco de l
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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),