M 4.5 in Philippines on 30 Sep 2020 21:08 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 1237512
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.1302 , 126.5037
Event Date: 30 Sep 2020 21:08 UTC
01 Oct 2020 05:08 Local
Exposed Population:
900000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Sep 2020 21:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000c3e1 Scaled population (vector) 5.67  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.18  
  INFORM_normalised 0.89  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 43 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Earthquake hits northern Philippines, felt in ManilaSun, 04 Oct 2020 21:00:00 +0200.

A moderate 5.4-magnitude earthquake has struck the northern Philippines, with shaking felt in the Metro Manila area, seismologists and residents say. There is no threat of a tsunami. The earthquake struck at 2:16 a.m. local time on Monday a
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Magnitude 4.6 earthquake shakes Tarlac, nearby areasSun, 04 Oct 2020 04:55:00 +0200.

MANILA, Philippines —A magnitude 4.6 earthquake shook Tarlac and nearby areas on Saturday night, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. Based on the initial Phivolcs bulletin, tremor hit 5 kilometers southwe
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Point de l'actualité à 12H00 GMTSat, 03 Oct 2020 14:33:00 +0200.

Voici notre rubrique "Point de l'actualité" à 12H00 GMT : Japon : un séisme de magnitude 6,0 frappe l'île de Hachijojima, aucune alerte émise au tsunami. TOKYO -- Un tremblement de terre d'une magnitude de 6,0 degrés sur l'échelle de Richte
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Humanitarian spirit shall be cherished in midst of COVID-19 pandemicSat, 03 Oct 2020 01:33:00 +0200.

“China, which upholds the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, would like to share its experience in disease prevention and control with other countries, launch joint research and development of medicines and va
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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),