Overall Green Earthquake in Philippines from 24 Dec 2020 23:43 UTC to 23:43

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M 6.5 in Philippines from 24 Dec 2020 23:43 UTC to 23:43

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 1248842
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.5M
Glide number:	EQ-2020-000186-PHL
Depth:	90 Km
Lat/Lon:	13.92 , 120.52
Event Date:	24 Dec 2020 23:43 UTC 25 Dec 2020 07:43 Local
Exposed Population:	380000 people in MMI 22380000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	25 Dec 2020 00:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		Tsunami		GDACS score
PTWC	0.3		0		1.2
pt20359004	Scaled population (raster)	0	Max wave alert	0m
	C1 shakemap	0.43	Max wave realtime	0m
	C2 shakemap	0.27
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0.89

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (90), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (4),

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