M 4.7 in Philippines on 12 Apr 2017 05:01 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 1110060
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 9.35 Km
Lat/Lon: 7.694 , 124.9072
Event Date: 12 Apr 2017 05:01 UTC
12 Apr 2017 13:01 Local
Exposed Population:
7870000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Apr 2017 05:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
us10008gv0 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),