M 4.6 in Philippines on 19 Dec 2021 06:27 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 1302408
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 80.8 Km
Lat/Lon: 15.4712 , 120.0186
Event Date: 19 Dec 2021 06:27 UTC
19 Dec 2021 14:27 Local
Exposed Population:
9 million in 100km
Inserted at: 19 Dec 2021 07:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gdje Scaled population (vector) 6.69  
  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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),