M 4.9 in Philippines on 31 Jan 2021 00:34 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 1253840
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.1132 , 126.468
Event Date: 31 Jan 2021 00:34 UTC
31 Jan 2021 08:34 Local
Exposed Population:
1050000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Jan 2021 00:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ddbf Scaled population (vector) 5.72  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.18  
  INFORM_normalised 0.89  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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An earthquake of average magnitude 4.2 on the Richter scale 48 km nort ... Sun, 31 Jan 2021 11:05:00 +0100.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),