M 4.6 in Philippines on 20 Mar 2018 11:10 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 1138012
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 610.95 Km
Lat/Lon: 6.5957 , 123.6176
Event Date: 20 Mar 2018 11:10 UTC
20 Mar 2018 19:10 Local
Exposed Population:
1010000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Mar 2018 11:29 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000d6qz Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 18 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

IOM Philippines, ECHO Support Metro Manila Resilience to Natural Disas ... Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:06:00 +0100.

Manila – IOM, the UN Migration Agency, and the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (ECHO) have launched a project that aims to build up the resilience of vulnerable populations constantly threatened by natural disast
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Why DoT, DENR and DILG agreed on the closure of Boracay for one yearFri, 16 Mar 2018 17:17:00 +0100.

WITH Sen. Cynthia Villar no longer obstructing or second-guessing the adoption of a single-minded solution to Boracay’s woes, three departments of the government—the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, the Department of Tourism
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Philippines: NDRRMC Update: Earthquake Information No. 2 in Talakag (B ... Fri, 16 Mar 2018 07:32:00 +0100.

(Extract) II. ACTIONS TAKEN: NDRRMC Advisory on the earthquake information was disseminated to OCD Regional Office X through SMS, and website for further dissemination to their respective Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council
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Magnitude 5 earthquake hits BukidnonThu, 15 Mar 2018 12:16:00 +0100.

A MAGNITUDE 5 earthquake struck Talakag town in Bukidnon province at 3:19 p.m. Thursday, March 15, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported. The Phivolcs recorded the quake's epicenter at 19 kilometers (km)
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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),