Overall Green Earthquake alert in Philippines on 27 Jul 2016 11:56 UTC

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M 4.9 in Philippines on 27 Jul 2016 11:56 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 1090763
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	35 Km
Lat/Lon:	10.952 , 124.613
Event Date:	27 Jul 2016 11:56 UTC 27 Jul 2016 19:56 Local
Exposed Population:	4648379 people within 100km
Inserted at:	27 Jul 2016 12:24 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us20006i2i	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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