M 5.1 in Philippines on 04 Apr 2017 16:49 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 1109401
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 89.99 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.6536 , 120.9224
Event Date: 04 Apr 2017 16:49 UTC
05 Apr 2017 00:49 Local
Exposed Population:
12660000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Apr 2017 17:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.3 -0.3
us10008ecq Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 399 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

FOTO + VIDEO. Trei cutremure au zguduit Filipine, în mai puțin de jumă ... Sat, 08 Apr 2017 16:48:00 +0200.

de 08 aprilie 2017 - stire actualizata la ora 17:44, 08 aprilie 2017. Sute de persoane au fost evacuate, sâmbătă de teama unui tsunami, după ce un cutremur cu magnitudinea de 5,9 pe Richter a avut loc în apropierea orașului Batangas din pr
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10:28 Hundreds Flee After Three Strong Quakes Strike PhilippinesSat, 08 Apr 2017 16:38:00 +0200.

08 de abril de 2017, 10:28 Manila, Apr 8 (Prensa Latina) Hundreds of residents of coastal areas in a province south of the Philippine capital fled to higher ground fearing a tsunami on Saturday after a series of earthquakes on the main isla
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فرار المئات بعد ثلاثة زلازل قوية في الفلبينSat, 08 Apr 2017 16:23:00 +0200.

وقالت هيئة المسح الجيولوجي الأمريكية إن ثلاثة زلازل تتراوح شدتها بين خمس درجات و5.9 درجة وقعت في إقليم باتانجاس وهو على بعد نحو 90 كيلومترا جنوبي العاصمة مانيلا وفي الساعة الثالثة بعد الظهر تقريبا وخلال نحو 20 دقيقة. وقال ليتو كاسترو، رئيس
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Panik nach drei Erdbeben auf den PhilippinenSat, 08 Apr 2017 16:21:00 +0200.

Manila – Drei schwere Erdbeben haben am Samstag auf den Philippinen zahlreiche Gebäude beschädigt und Touristen in Panik versetzt. Dem ersten Beben mit einer Stärke von 5,5 gegen 15.00 Uhr (Ortszeit, 9.00 Uhr MESZ) folgten Minuten später ei
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),