M 6.1 in Philippines on 03 Jul 2015 06:43 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 1059250
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 33.01 Km
Lat/Lon: 10.1707 , 125.8986
Event Date: 03 Jul 2015 06:43 UTC
03 Jul 2015 14:43 Local
Exposed Population:
972128 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Jul 2015 07:48 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 1.3 1.3
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), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),