Overall Orange Earthquake in Philippines on 05 Aug 2026 04:14 UTC

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M 6.3 in Philippines on 05 Aug 2026 04:14 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 1556215
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.3M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	5.1812 , 125.276
Event Date:	05 Aug 2026 04:14 UTC 05 Aug 2026 12:14 Local
Exposed Population:	10 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at:	05 Aug 2026 04:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		Tsunami		GDACS score
NEIC	1		0.1		1
us6000ti6x	Scaled population (raster)	2.86	Max wave alert	0.11m
	C1 shakemap	0.43	Max wave realtime	0.11m
	C2 shakemap	0.27
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0.89

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (90), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (4),

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