M 5 in Philippines on 13 Feb 2017 20:04 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 1105510
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 41.3 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.8276 , 125.4083
Event Date: 13 Feb 2017 20:04 UTC
14 Feb 2017 04:04 Local
Exposed Population:
2190000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Feb 2017 23:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.4 0.4
us20008jk1 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 498 | About casualties: 74 | Last hour: 0

Damage to Japan reactor worse than expected: TEPCOFri, 17 Feb 2017 17:49:00 +0100.

Robot probes sent to one of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear reactors have suggested worse-than-anticipated challenges for the plant’s ongoing cleanup. The plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), said the remote-control
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Fukushima reactor cleanup worse than expected as the robot sends back ... Fri, 17 Feb 2017 17:48:00 +0100.

TOKYO — Robot probes sent to one of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear reactors have suggested worse-than-anticipated challenges for the plant’s ongoing cleanup. The plant’s operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the remote-controlle
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Robot probes show Japan reactor cleanup worse than expectedFri, 17 Feb 2017 17:39:00 +0100.

TOKYO (AP) - Robot probes sent to one of Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear reactors have suggested worse-than-anticipated challenges for the plant's ongoing cleanup. The plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the remote-controlled "
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Magnitude 4.6 quake hits Surigao CityFri, 17 Feb 2017 16:49:00 +0100.

A MAGNITUDE 4.6 earthquake struck Surigao City around 5:18 p.m. Friday, February 17. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology recorded the epicenter of the earthquake 22 kilometers west of Surigao City and with a depth of two
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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),