M 4.5 in Philippines on 18 Feb 2020 02:58 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 1206932
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 102.96 Km
Lat/Lon: 5.4869 , 126.1431
Event Date: 18 Feb 2020 02:58 UTC
18 Feb 2020 10:58 Local
Exposed Population:
240000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Feb 2020 03:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70007s6p Scaled population (vector) 4.55  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.18  
  INFORM_normalised 0.89  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 97 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

UNHCR Philippines CRI Quarterly Report July - December 2019, Issue No. ... Fri, 21 Feb 2020 06:50:00 +0100.

Upon request of the government, UNHCR will ensure provision of core relief items to displaced families. UNHCR will maintain a role as advocate to ensure adherence to the protection principles, including non-discrimination in the provision o
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Philippines: IDP Protection Assessment Report - Displacement caused by ... Thu, 20 Feb 2020 06:29:00 +0100.

INCIDENT BACKGROUND. On 29 October 2019 at 09:04 AM, a 6.6 magnitude Tectonic Earthquake jolted the Municipality of Makilala, Province of North Cotabato. The earthquake caused destruction and displacement of populations across Region 11 and
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Philippines: ACAPS Briefing Note: Philippines - Typhoon (03 January 20 ... Wed, 19 Feb 2020 20:45:00 +0100.

Crisis Impact Overview. • 915,000 people are recorded as affected in the following areas : Eastern Samar, Leyte, Western Samar, San Jose (Occidental Mindoro), Malay (Aklan), Sigma (Capiz), Concepcion (Iloilo), Madridejos (Cebu), Borongan Ci
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Philippines: Philippines: Mindanao Humanitarian Situation as of 19 Feb ... Wed, 19 Feb 2020 12:36:00 +0100.

MARAWI CONFLICT. 70,000 displaced population. According to the UNHCR Mindanao Displacement Dashboard in December 2019, 422 families are staying in 9 evacuation centres (EC) and community-based centres (CBC) while 2,900 families are staying
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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),