M 5.4 in Philippines on 13 Jan 2025 00:19 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 1461992
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 540.2 Km
Lat/Lon: 6.6152 , 123.7945
Event Date: 13 Jan 2025 00:19 UTC
13 Jan 2025 08:19 Local
Exposed Population: 1 thousand in MMI II
Inserted at: 13 Jan 2025 04:38 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000pjlq Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),