M 5.7 in Mindanao, Philippines on 15 Dec 2019 07:09 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 1198225
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 6.5268 , 125.2987
Event Date: 15 Dec 2019 07:09 UTC
15 Dec 2019 15:09 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI VII
7130000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Dec 2019 07:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.8 0.8
us60006rpn Scaled population (raster) 2.13  
  C1 shakemap 0.43  
  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

Articles: 306 | About casualties: 69 | Last hour: 0

Philippines Quake Death Toll Rises to Nine as Aftershocks ContinueWed, 18 Dec 2019 23:12:00 +0100.

MANILA – At least nine people had died and one was missing on Wednesday after a magnitude-6.8 earthquake over the weekend shook the southern Philippines. Aftershocks continued to rattle Mindanao island on Wednesday, including one of magnitu
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Ascienden a 11 los muertos por un terremoto en FilipinasWed, 18 Dec 2019 19:29:00 +0100.

Once personas murieron y una está desaparecida tras el terremoto de magnitud 6,8 que sacudió el domingo la isla de Mindanao, en el sur de Filipinas, donde continúan las réplicas, incluida una el miércoles de magnitud 5,3. Los heridos por el
...(more)
Internacionales Suben a 11 los muertos por terremoto de Filipinas, don ... Wed, 18 Dec 2019 17:35:00 +0100.

Once personas murieron y una está desaparecida tras el terremoto de magnitud 6,8 que sacudió el domingo la isla de Mindanao, en el sur de Filipinas, donde continúan las réplicas, incluida una el miércoles de magnitud 5,3. Los heridos por el
...(more)
Suben a 11 los muertos por terremoto de Filipinas, donde siguen las ré ... Wed, 18 Dec 2019 17:10:00 +0100.

Once personas murieron y una está desaparecida tras el terremoto de magnitud 6,8 que sacudió el domingo la isla de Mindanao, en el sur de Filipinas, donde continúan las réplicas, incluida una el miércoles de magnitud 5,3. Los heridos por el
...(more)

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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),