M 5.5 in Philippines on 12 Aug 2020 22:32 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 1229975
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 19.9331 , 121.2699
Event Date: 12 Aug 2020 22:32 UTC
13 Aug 2020 06:32 Local
Exposed Population: About 22000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Aug 2020 00:35 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
us6000bdq1 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0.43  
  C2 shakemap 0.27  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.89  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 61 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Moderate quake strikes MindanaoSun, 16 Aug 2020 11:24:00 +0200.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 16 -- A moderate earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 on the Richter scale occurred at 3.22 pm today in Mindanao, the Philippines, according to the Malaysian Meteorological Department. It said in a statement the location of
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Professor Bar-On wins Yigal Alon prize for pioneering excellenceThu, 13 Aug 2020 11:58:00 +0200.

Professor Elhanan Bar-On, the director of the Center for Disaster Medicine & Humanitarian Response at Sheba Medical Center, has won the Yigal Alon Prize for pioneering excellence. As a Lt. Colonel in the IDF Medical Corps Reserves, Prof. Ba
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Magnitude 5.5 quake hits off Sabtang, BatanesThu, 13 Aug 2020 04:44:00 +0200.

MANILA, Philippines — A 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck off Sabtang Island, Batanes on Thursday morning, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. There were no immediate reports of damage or injury from the quake
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5.5-magnitude earthquake rattles northern PhilippinesThu, 13 Aug 2020 02:42:00 +0200.

MANILA, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 shook Batanes province in the northern Philippines on Thursday, the Philippine Institute of Seismology and Volcanology (Phivolcs) said. The institute said the qua
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),