M 4.8 in Philippines on 05 May 2024 19:08 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 1427415
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 42.4 Km
Lat/Lon: 15.0412 , 119.9744
Event Date: 05 May 2024 19:08 UTC
06 May 2024 03:08 Local
Exposed Population:
40 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 05 May 2024 19:28 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mwjn Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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: 20 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Weak mag. 3.9 earthquake - Mindanao, Philippines, on Tuesday, May 7, 2 ... 2024-05-07T16:14+0200.

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Magnitude 5.1 earthquake strikes near Koronadal, South Cotabato, Soccs ... 2024-05-07T15:55+0200.

The United States Geological Survey reported a magnitude 5.1 quake in the Philippines near Koronadal, South Cotabato, Soccsksargen, only 29 minutes ago. The earthquake hit in the evening on Tuesday, May 7th, 2024, at 9:12 pm local time at a
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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),