M 4.6 in Philippines on 15 Apr 2017 07:21 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 1110302
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 74.96 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.0615 , 126.3149
Event Date: 15 Apr 2017 07:21 UTC
15 Apr 2017 15:21 Local
Exposed Population:
2000000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Apr 2017 07:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -1 -1
us10008hts Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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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),