M 4.9 in Philippines on 09 Mar 2014 05:45 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 1027242
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 21.93 Km
Lat/Lon: 17.1768 , 119.381
Event Date: 09 Mar 2014 05:45 UTC
09 Mar 2014 13:45 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Mar 2014 06:25 UTC

GDACS Score

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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  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),