M 5.5 in Philippines on 07 Jan 2019 03:11 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 1167332
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 7.8755 , 121.9233
Event Date: 07 Jan 2019 03:11 UTC
07 Jan 2019 11:11 Local
Exposed Population: 980000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Jan 2019 03:34 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
us2000j0yp Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0.43  
  C2 shakemap 0.27  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.89  
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Latest media headlines

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QRCS enhances education, WATSAN services in Philippines [EN/AR[ - Phil ... Tue, 08 Jan 2019 07:49:00 +0100.

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QRCS enhances education and sanitation services in...Tue, 08 Jan 2019 07:17:00 +0100.

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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),