M 4.9 in Philippines on 17 Dec 2021 14:28 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 1302168
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 12.8183 , 123.5095
Event Date: 17 Dec 2021 14:28 UTC
17 Dec 2021 22:28 Local
Exposed Population:
4.3 million in 100km
Inserted at: 17 Dec 2021 15:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
us6000gd3g Scaled population (vector) 6.6  
  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

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),