M 5.5 in Philippines on 13 Dec 2021 09:12 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 1301290
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 156.88 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.609 , 120.7493
Event Date: 13 Dec 2021 09:12 UTC
13 Dec 2021 17:12 Local
Exposed Population: 12 million in 100km
Inserted at: 13 Dec 2021 09:32 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
us6000gbu7 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0.43  
  C2 shakemap 0.27  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.89  
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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),