M 6.9 in Philippines on 28 Apr 2017 20:23 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 1111531
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.9M
Glide number: EQ-2017-000044-PHL
Depth: 26 Km
Lat/Lon: 5.5164 , 125.0933
Event Date: 28 Apr 2017 20:23 UTC
29 Apr 2017 04:23 Local
Exposed Population: 100000 people in MMI
1800000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Apr 2017 18:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 2.3 0.2 2.3
us10008ls4 Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake 1 Max wave realtime 0.23m  
  C2 earthquake 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

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Daily Maps:

02/May/2017 06:20 UTC

Data, images, links, services and documents

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