M 4.5 in Philippines on 29 Dec 2021 08:06 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 1303873
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 79.19 Km
Lat/Lon: 5.968 , 126.2497
Event Date: 29 Dec 2021 08:06 UTC
29 Dec 2021 16:06 Local
Exposed Population:
370 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 29 Dec 2021 08:26 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gg2d Scaled population (vector) 4.94  
  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),