M 4.5 in Philippines on 09 Dec 2021 05:42 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 1300674
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 174.04 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.7229 , 120.7228
Event Date: 09 Dec 2021 05:42 UTC
09 Dec 2021 13:42 Local
Exposed Population:
15.3 million in 100km
Inserted at: 09 Dec 2021 07:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gard Scaled population (vector) 6.89  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.18  
  INFORM_normalised 0.89  
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Latest media headlines

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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),