M 5.3 in Philippines on 23 Apr 2024 12:55 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 1425515
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 19.6 Km
Lat/Lon: 20.1111 , 121.3498
Event Date: 23 Apr 2024 12:55 UTC
23 Apr 2024 20:55 Local
Exposed Population:
20 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 23 Apr 2024 13:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mt6s Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),