Overall Green Earthquake in Philippines on 12 Aug 2026 21:25 UTC

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M 4.7 in Philippines on 12 Aug 2026 21:25 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 1557702
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	20.4966 , 122.2726
Event Date:	12 Aug 2026 21:25 UTC 13 Aug 2026 05:25 Local
Exposed Population:	10 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at:	12 Aug 2026 23:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000tkax	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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