M 5.3 in Philippines on 25 May 2017 14:27 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 1113789
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 92.97 Km
Lat/Lon: 15.0781 , 120.4057
Event Date: 25 May 2017 14:27 UTC
25 May 2017 22:27 Local
Exposed Population:
28500000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 May 2017 14:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008vb2 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),