M 4.6 in Philippines on 14 Aug 2013 11:51 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 1002290
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 59.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 5.8852 , 127.493
Event Date: 14 Aug 2013 11:51 UTC
14 Aug 2013 19:51 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Aug 2013 12:12 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
usb000j303 Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 433 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

Force 5.1 quake jolts Indonesia's North Maluku ProvinceSun, 18 Aug 2013 09:00:00 +0200.

A 5.1-magnitude quake was registered early on Sunday off Indonesia's North Maluku province, the US Geological Survey reported.
El 'destino catástrofe' es una modaSun, 18 Aug 2013 07:34:00 +0200.

Rikuzentakata era una ciudad famosa por su playa y por sus pinos majestuosos en el Pacífico japonés. Pero desde el tsunami del 2011 se convirtió en un polo de "turismo catástrofe", una actividad lucrativa en muchos puntos del planeta.La atr
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76Sun, 18 Aug 2013 06:22:00 +0200.

What I don't understand is how it was common knowledge that Fukushima produced weapons grade plutonium for both the Japanese and the U.S. nuclear weapons agencies. Plutonium is supposed to be the worst, the most deadly nuclear product, out
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5.1 Magnitude Strikes off Indonesia’s North Maluku ProvinceSun, 18 Aug 2013 04:01:00 +0200.

A 5.1-magnitude quake was registered early on Sunday off Indonesia’s North Maluku province, the US Geological Service reported.

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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 (40), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),