M 5.2 in Philippines on 15 Feb 2019 16:20 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 1170903
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 82.24 Km
Lat/Lon: 6.7971 , 126.8225
Event Date: 15 Feb 2019 16:20 UTC
16 Feb 2019 00:20 Local
Exposed Population:
620000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Feb 2019 16:41 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000jih8 Scaled population (vector) 5.29  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.18  
  INFORM_normalised 0.89  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 77 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Crews of all Royal Navy ships practise providing disaster relief and h ... Sun, 17 Feb 2019 16:51:00 +0100.

Sailors from the frigate and the emergency services showed how they could work together in the event of an apocalyptic explosion in the county in the dramatic exercise. Working together, they used the Royal Navy ’s unique disaster training
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Crews of all Royal Navy ships practise providing disaster relief and h ... Sun, 17 Feb 2019 14:16:00 +0100.

Sailors from the frigate and the emergency services showed how they could work together in the event of an apocalyptic explosion in the county in the dramatic exercise. Working together, they used the Royal Navy ’s unique disaster training
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(OPINION) Rehabilitation over reclamation for Manila BayThu, 14 Feb 2019 11:11:00 +0100.

Manila Bay has long been a symbol of the environmental degradation that has plagued the Philippines for decades. Despite a 2008 Supreme Court ruling ordering government agencies to clean it up , the bay's water quality remains poor. The see
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Magnitude 4.1 quake hits MaguindanaoThu, 14 Feb 2019 06:54:00 +0100.

MANILA, Philippines — A magnitude 4.1 earthquake jolted Maguindanao on Thursday morning, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. In its earthquake bulletin, Phivolcs reported that the temblor struck off the
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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),