Overall Green Earthquake in Philippines on 09 Jan 2024 01:08 UTC

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M 4.5 in Philippines on 09 Jan 2024 01:08 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 1409917
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	97.8 Km
Lat/Lon:	4.7302 , 126.3377
Event Date:	09 Jan 2024 01:08 UTC 09 Jan 2024 09:08 Local
Exposed Population:	200 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at:	09 Jan 2024 01:26 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Philippines)

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000m2mj	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 rapid impact	0
	C2 rapid impact	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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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),

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