M 4.7 in Philippines on 25 Dec 2021 14:25 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 1303382
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 66.75 Km
Lat/Lon: 6.9921 , 126.6579
Event Date: 25 Dec 2021 14:25 UTC
25 Dec 2021 22:25 Local
Exposed Population:
950 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 25 Dec 2021 16:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gf8i Scaled population (vector) 5.86  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.18  
  INFORM_normalised 0.89  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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),