M 5.5 in Philippines on 27 Dec 2024 18:42 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 1459542
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 56.1 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.5628 , 126.3603
Event Date: 27 Dec 2024 18:42 UTC
28 Dec 2024 02:42 Local
Exposed Population: 1.8 million in MMI&>=IV
Inserted at: 27 Dec 2024 19:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000pfz1 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),