M 4.9 in Philippines on 09 Dec 2021 12:45 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 1300710
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 74.89 Km
Lat/Lon: 10.0913 , 126.242
Event Date: 09 Dec 2021 12:45 UTC
09 Dec 2021 20:45 Local
Exposed Population:
720 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 09 Dec 2021 13:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gatx Scaled population (vector) 5.58  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.18  
  INFORM_normalised 0.89  
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),