Overall Green Earthquake alert in Philippines on 30 Jan 2026 00:49 UTC

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M 5.1 in Philippines on 30 Jan 2026 00:49 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 1522012
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.1M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	6.4915 , 123.8572
Event Date:	30 Jan 2026 00:49 UTC 30 Jan 2026 08:49 Local
Exposed Population:	80 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at:	30 Jan 2026 01:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000s5d3	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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