M 5.1 in Philippines on 15 Nov 2020 06:35 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 1243826
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 37.32 Km
Lat/Lon: 11.8158 , 124.3091
Event Date: 15 Nov 2020 06:35 UTC
15 Nov 2020 14:35 Local
Exposed Population:
3280000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Nov 2020 14:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000cf7b Scaled population (vector) 6.3  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.18  
  INFORM_normalised 0.89  
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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 (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),