M 5 in Philippines on 04 Mar 2025 01:42 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 1470902
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 16.6 Km
Lat/Lon: 6.7205 , 125.1594
Event Date: 04 Mar 2025 01:42 UTC
04 Mar 2025 09:42 Local
Exposed Population:
130 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 04 Mar 2025 01:53 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.7 0.7
us6000pwqe Scaled population (vector) 1.38  
  C1 rapid impact 0.43  
  C2 rapid impact 0.27  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.89  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),