M 7 in Philippines on 29 Dec 2018 03:39 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 1166573
Earthquake Magnitude: 7.0M
Depth: 60.06 Km
Lat/Lon: 5.9735 , 126.8283
Event Date: 29 Dec 2018 03:39 UTC
29 Dec 2018 11:39 Local
Exposed Population: About 5000 people in MMI
About 20000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Dec 2018 04:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0 0.3
us2000iyta Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0.08m  
  C1 shakemap 0.43 Max wave realtime 0.08m  
  C2 shakemap 0.27      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.89      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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 (91), (5), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),