M 6.2 in Philippines on 29 Sep 2019 02:02 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 1188729
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 76.08 Km
Lat/Lon: 5.6882 , 126.5476
Event Date: 29 Sep 2019 02:02 UTC
29 Sep 2019 10:02 Local
Exposed Population: About 12000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Sep 2019 02:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0 0.3
us70005nbb Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap 0.43 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.27      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.89      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 97 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Hopes fade for six workers feared trapped after Taiwan bridge collapseWed, 02 Oct 2019 08:33:00 +0200.

Taipei : Hopes were fading late Tuesday for six missing people believed to be trapped when a bridge in Taiwan collapsed onto a group of fishing boats moored underneath. Dramatic CCTV footage captured the moment the 140-metre (460-foot) long
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4 bodies found, 2 still missing after Taiwan bridge collapseWed, 02 Oct 2019 07:08:00 +0200.

Dramatic CCTV footage captured the moment the 140-metre long single-arch bridge came crashing down in Nanfangao, on Taiwan's east coast. In the video, the road gave way and tumbled down onto at least three fishing boats as a petrol tanker t
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Hopes fade for 6 feared trapped after Taiwan bridge collapseWed, 02 Oct 2019 06:05:00 +0200.

At least 12 people were injured, including six Filipino and three Indonesian fishing workers, the Taiwanese driver of the petrol tanker, and two coastguard personnel, according to Taiwan's National Fire Agency. Officials launched a rescue o
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Hopes fade for six feared trapped after Taiwan bridge collapseWed, 02 Oct 2019 05:50:00 +0200.

NANFANGAO, Taiwan — Hopes were fading late Tuesday for six missing people believed to be trapped when a bridge in Taiwan collapsed onto a group of fishing boats moored underneath. Dramatic CCTV footage captured the moment the 140-meter (460
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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 (91), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),