M 4.6 in Philippines on 25 Mar 2017 22:16 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 1108655
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 35.78 Km
Lat/Lon: 15.9613 , 119.4008
Event Date: 25 Mar 2017 22:16 UTC
26 Mar 2017 06:16 Local
Exposed Population:
1030000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Mar 2017 22:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008upk Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),