M 4.7 in Philippines on 26 Dec 2021 00:12 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 1303423
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 16.0489 , 119.4586
Event Date: 26 Dec 2021 00:12 UTC
26 Dec 2021 08:12 Local
Exposed Population:
1.4 million in 100km
Inserted at: 26 Dec 2021 00:26 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gfb8 Scaled population (vector) 5.84  
  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),