M 5.7 in Philippines on 12 May 2021 01:09 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 1268409
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 109.91 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.5547 , 120.8972
Event Date: 12 May 2021 01:09 UTC
12 May 2021 09:09 Local
Exposed Population: 11770000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 May 2021 01:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
us7000e28e Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0.43  
  C2 shakemap 0.27  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.89  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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),