M 4.5 in Philippines on 27 Oct 2020 23:38 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 1241142
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 34.94 Km
Lat/Lon: 19.6155 , 122.2098
Event Date: 27 Oct 2020 23:38 UTC
28 Oct 2020 07:38 Local
Exposed Population:
About 24000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Oct 2020 00:44 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000c6iy Scaled population (vector) 3.6  
  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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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 57 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

No Filipino fatality reported in Turkey earthquake, says envoySat, 31 Oct 2020 05:13:00 +0100.

Volunteers search for survivors at a collapsed building after a powerful earthquake struck Turkey’s western coast and parts of Greece, in Izmir, on October 31, 2020. – A powerful earthquake hit Turkey and Greece on October 30, killing at le
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Israel offers to send IDF search and rescue team to Turkey after deadl ... Fri, 30 Oct 2020 17:00:00 +0100.

Israel offered to immediately send an IDF search and rescue team to Turkey on Friday, after a deadly earthquake toppled buildings in the city of Izmir, killing at least six people. A strong earthquake struck Friday between the Turkish coast
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Death toll from Philippines typhoon reaches 22Fri, 30 Oct 2020 09:20:00 +0100.

Shop workers clean up crates of fallen bottles after a 6.7-magnitude earthquake hit near the town of Cataingan in the central Philippine province of Masbate on August 18, 2020. - The strong earthquake shook the central Philippines on August
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PAGASA warns of flash floods, landslides due to twin stormsSat, 24 Oct 2020 19:28:00 +0200.

ROADS BLOCKED. A landslide completely blocks this road between Claveria and Sta. Praxedes towns in Cagayan Province on Saturday, while the combined rains from storms ‘Pepito’ and ‘Quinta’ eroded this road (inset) also between the two towns,
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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),