M 4.7 in Philippines on 17 Feb 2017 09:18 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 1105770
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 35.26 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.8335 , 125.3807
Event Date: 17 Feb 2017 09:18 UTC
17 Feb 2017 17:18 Local
Exposed Population:
2190000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Feb 2017 10:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us20008ken 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: 531 | About casualties: 41 | Last hour: 0

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Det kommer en tsunami av kreftoverlevere med seneffekterTue, 21 Feb 2017 08:43:00 +0100.

Helsedirektoratet har nylig utgitt en rapport om seneffekter etter kreftsykdom. Moderne kreftdiagnostikk og behandling har gitt en betydelig bedre overlevelse. I dag lever 6 av 10 kreftpasienter minst 5 år etter at kreftdiagnosen ble stilt.
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Bishop of Parramatta Vincent Long Van Nguyen tells royal commission he ... Tue, 21 Feb 2017 08:22:00 +0100.

The Bishop of Parramatta, Vincent Long Van Nguyen, has told a royal commission he suffered sexual abuse by a member of the clergy after arriving in Australia as a refugee from Vietnam in 1981. Bishop Long told the Royal Commission into Inst
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Преподавателя уволят за шутку про "светящуюся" студентку из ФукусимыTue, 21 Feb 2017 08:08:00 +0100.

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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),