M 4.6 in Philippines on 17 Apr 2017 13:55 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 1110509
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 41.34 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.1097 , 126.4661
Event Date: 17 Apr 2017 13:55 UTC
17 Apr 2017 21:55 Local
Exposed Population:
1420000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Apr 2017 15:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008icy Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 325 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

“Bağımsız Kürdistan tsunami yaratır”Fri, 21 Apr 2017 13:45:00 +0200.

Irak'ta iktidardaki Şii İttifakı’nın etkili lideri Ammar El Hakim, “Bağımsız bir Kürdistan’ın tüm bölgede hissedilecek siyasi bir tsunami” yaratacağını savundu. Irak’ın Kürt Bölgesi'nde bağımsızlık referandumunun hazırlıkları başlatılırken
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Assess govt preparedness for ‘Big One,’ Senate urgedFri, 21 Apr 2017 12:35:00 +0200.

WHILE there has been no technology that can predict earthquakes and save lives and property, the government has enough time to prepare for and mitigate the impact of the “Big One” that might hit Metro Manila (National Capital Region or NCR)
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20 new tsunami alert sirens being installedFri, 21 Apr 2017 09:17:00 +0200.

Installation of 20 new alert sirens has been in the works for more than a year, and will greatly enhance the ability of the V.I. Territorial Emergency Management Agency to alert residents of a potential threat, according to VITEMA spokeswom
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What ever happened to Mamasapano?Fri, 21 Apr 2017 00:38:00 +0200.

Purisima, according to the charge sheet, entered into a deal with Werfort Courier Service to deliver firearms licenses of applicants. Due diligence was not carried out by the former PNP chief. It turned out Werfort does not have a track rec
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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),