M 4.5 in Philippines on 02 Jul 2020 19:00 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 1224874
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 95.98 Km
Lat/Lon: 5.5203 , 126.2209
Event Date: 02 Jul 2020 19:00 UTC
03 Jul 2020 03:00 Local
Exposed Population:
200000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Jul 2020 21:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000agvq Scaled population (vector) 4.32  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.18  
  INFORM_normalised 0.89  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 28 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Alert Level 1 up over Bulusan Volcano in SorsogonMon, 06 Jul 2020 12:42:00 +0200.

MANILA, Philippines State volcanologists on Monday raised the status of Bulusan Volcano in Sorsogon to Alert Level 1, which signifies “abnormal” condition. This comes after 53 volcanic earthquakes have been recorded since Friday and 43 low-
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MIL-OSI Security: USS McCampbell departs Japan, celebrates success whi ... Mon, 06 Jul 2020 07:43:00 +0200.

PACIFIC OCEAN – USS McCampbell (DDG 85) departed Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan, July 2, following 13 years of service forward deployed to U.S. 7th Fleet. The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer is en route to Portland, Oregon, w
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Disaster month celebration to focus on hydromet hazardsTue, 30 Jun 2020 15:53:00 +0200.

CELEBRATION of the National Disaster Preparedness Month will focus on addressing hydro meteorological hazards in the region during the typhoon season. Albert Mogol, Office of the Civil Defense (OCD)-Cordillera and Cordillera Disaster Region
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Phivolcs records 20 Kanlaon Volcano quakes in 24 hoursMon, 29 Jun 2020 04:20:00 +0200.

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) has recorded 16 volcano-tectonic earthquakes on the western flanks and four volcanic earthquakes in the summit area of Kanlaon Volcano on Negros Island
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),