Overall Green Earthquake in Philippines on 03 Jan 2014 19:52 UTC

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M 4.8 in Philippines on 03 Jan 2014 19:52 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 1022163
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	80.47 Km
Lat/Lon:	8.7228 , 126.3124
Event Date:	03 Jan 2014 19:52 UTC 04 Jan 2014 03:52 Local
Exposed Population:	1862895 people within 100km
Inserted at:	04 Jan 2014 17:25 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	-0.8		-0.8
	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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