M 5.5 in Philippines on 17 Jun 2018 09:46 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 1146330
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 34.33 Km
Lat/Lon: 14.9028 , 119.7324
Event Date: 17 Jun 2018 09:46 UTC
17 Jun 2018 17:46 Local
Exposed Population: 3010000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Jun 2018 10:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
us1000etr8 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0.43  
  C2 shakemap 0.27  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.89  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 34 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

Le séisme d’Osaka ravive la peur du «big one» au JaponTue, 19 Jun 2018 12:39:00 +0200.

Alors que le tremblement de terre de magnitude 6,1 survenu lundi a fait 4 morts et 376 blessés, des experts estiment qu’un séisme de magnitude 8 ou 9 est à redouter dans les trente ans. © Yosuke Mizuno / AP A Ibaraki, dans la région d’Osaka
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Le séisme d’Osaka ravive la peur du « big one » au JaponTue, 19 Jun 2018 11:16:00 +0200.

Comme si les répliques ne suffisaient pas. La région d’Osaka, la grande métropole de l’ouest du Japon, et ses 8,8 millions d’habitants (19,8 avec les villes de Kobe et Kyoto) devaient subir , dans la soirée du mardi 19 juin, de fortes préci
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World: Webinar: From the Nepal earthquake to the Rohingya crisis: trac ... Tue, 19 Jun 2018 02:43:00 +0200.

Over three years, the Transforming Surge Capacity Project tracked the humanitarian surge response to six major crises. On 27 June at 09:00-10:00 GMT (10:00 UK; 11:00 CEST), Dr Glenn O'Neil, co-lead researcher for the project will present th
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MIL-OSI Asia-Pacific: From the Office of the Presidential Spokesperson ... Mon, 18 Jun 2018 14:53:00 +0200.

Source: Government of the Philippines. On the Japan earthquake We offer our prayers to the people of Japan who were affected by the magnitude 5.9 earthquake that struck their western region this morning. The Department of Foreign Affairs, t
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),