M 4.8 in Philippines on 14 Apr 2021 11:09 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 1264731
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 80.94 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.9732 , 126.3417
Event Date: 14 Apr 2021 11:09 UTC
14 Apr 2021 19:09 Local
Exposed Population:
700000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Apr 2021 11:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000e1g8 Scaled population (vector) 5.53  
  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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World Earthquake Report for Wednesday, 14 April 2021Wed, 14 Apr 2021 21:18:00 +0200.

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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),