M 4.8 in Philippines on 16 Sep 2012 22:09 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 119656
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 10.5094 , 126.739
Event Date: 16 Sep 2012 22:09 UTC
17 Sep 2012 06:09 Local
Exposed Population:
About 18000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Sep 2012 22:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
usc000cq5b Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 91 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Dormant undersea volcano near Kalpakkam atomic plant?Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:36:00 +0200.

Even as massive protests have stalled the commissioning of the Kudankulam nuclear plant, activists have now raised concerns over the safety of another nuclear site in Tamil Nadu.
Dos rusas seguidoras de ovnis provocan alarma al pronosticar terremoto ... Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:09:00 +0200.

A través de la red. Victoria Popova y Lidia Adrianova vaticinaron un sismo que devastaría el Perú este 21 de setiembre. Sin embargo, expertos peruanos desmienten sus predicciones y aseguran que no es posible presagiar un movimiento telúrico
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Dormant undersea volcano near Kalpakkam atomic plant?Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:23:00 +0200.

Even as massive protests have stalled the commissioning of the Kudankulam nuclear plant, activists have now raised concerns over the safety of another nuclear site in Tamil Nadu. The activists claim that there is documentary evidence that t
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No disaster plan if quake sets off Mount Fuji eruption, scientists saySun, 16 Sep 2012 22:25:00 +0200.

When Toshitsugu Fujii became head of a Japanese task force on disaster response at Mount Fuji, he was confronted with a startling oversight. Japan had no plan in place to deal with a disaster in which an earthquake sparks a volcanic eruptio
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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),