M 5.8 in Philippines on 23 Jul 2021 20:57 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 1278418
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 132.4 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.8178 , 120.7172
Event Date: 23 Jul 2021 20:57 UTC
24 Jul 2021 04:57 Local
Exposed Population: 23710000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Jul 2021 21:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
us6000eyfn Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0.43  
  C2 shakemap 0.27  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.89  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 295 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 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),