M 5.4 in Philippines on 12 Apr 2017 20:01 UTC

Event summary

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

GDACS ID EQ 1110110
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 7.696 , 124.8452
Event Date: 12 Apr 2017 20:01 UTC
13 Apr 2017 04:01 Local
Exposed Population: 140000 people in MMI
7300000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Apr 2017 20:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 1 1
us10008h1u Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),