Overall Green Earthquake alert in Philippines on 28 Jul 2013 12:52 UTC

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M 4.6 in Philippines on 28 Jul 2013 12:52 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 1000725
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	558.4 Km
Lat/Lon:	6.0574 , 123.4999
Event Date:	28 Jul 2013 12:52 UTC 28 Jul 2013 20:52 Local
Exposed Population:	About 62557 people within 100km
Inserted at:	28 Jul 2013 13:17 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
	Scaled population (vector)	n.a
	C1 earthquake	n.a
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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