M 6.7 in Philippines on 06 Feb 2012 03:49 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a high humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 114698
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.7M
Glide number: EQ-2012-000018-PHL
Depth: 20 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.964 , 123.246
Event Date: 06 Feb 2012 03:49 UTC
06 Feb 2012 11:49 Local
Exposed Population: About 44000 people in MMI
40 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 02 Feb 2017 13:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 2.6 0.1 2.6
usb0007wgq Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0.13m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
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Exposed population

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Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (88), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),