M 6 in Philippines on 04 Nov 2018 07:55 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 1161164
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 598.1 Km
Lat/Lon: 7.8051 , 123.8717
Event Date: 04 Nov 2018 07:55 UTC
04 Nov 2018 15:55 Local
Exposed Population:
5590000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Nov 2018 08:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000i6mv Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 74 | About casualties: 14 | Last hour: 0

DOST-PHIVOLCS strengthens Tsunami awareness of academe, LGUsWed, 07 Nov 2018 08:40:00 +0100.

Photo caption: Paranaque City Mayor Edwin Olivarez, together with DOST-PHIVOLCS Deputy Director Dr Bartolome Bautista, leads the ribbon cutting ceremony of the exhibit on Tsunami Awareness and Preparedness #HandaAngMayAlam held in Paranaque
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DOST-PHIVOLCS strengthens Tsunami awareness of academe, LGUsWed, 07 Nov 2018 05:28:00 +0100.

Photo caption: Paranaque City Mayor Edwin Olivarez, together with DOST-PHIVOLCS Deputy Director Dr Bartolome Bautista, leads the ribbon cutting ceremony of the exhibit on Tsunami Awareness and Preparedness #HandaAngMayAlam held in Paranaque
...(more)
Indonesia: ASEAN Weekly Disaster Update, 29 October – 4 November 2018Tue, 06 Nov 2018 11:11:00 +0100.

Regional Summary of Week 44, and Outlook for Week 45 and 46 In Week 44, the reported disasters occurred mostly in the central region of ASEAN. We have seen typhoon passing through the northern part of Philippines, floods in West Sumatra and
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5.5 magnitude quake batters southern PhilippinesTue, 06 Nov 2018 10:22:00 +0100.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 rattled the southern Philippine Davao Occidental province on Tuesday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. The institute said the earthquake, which struck at 10:09 am local 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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),