Overall Green Earthquake alert in Philippines on 15 Apr 2017 20:40 UTC

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M 5.1 in Philippines on 15 Apr 2017 20:40 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 1110354
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.1M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	7.7279 , 124.7914
Event Date:	15 Apr 2017 20:40 UTC 16 Apr 2017 04:40 Local
Exposed Population:	7140000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	15 Apr 2017 21:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.6		0.6
us10008hz7	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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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),

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