M 4.5 in Philippines on 24 May 2017 14:08 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 1113759
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 41.18 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.738 , 124.5376
Event Date: 24 May 2017 14:08 UTC
24 May 2017 22:08 Local
Exposed Population:
5350000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 May 2017 05:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008uuw Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),