M 4.8 in Philippines on 12 Jan 2014 02:20 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 1023089
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10.1 Km
Lat/Lon: 8.9547 , 126.2432
Event Date: 12 Jan 2014 02:20 UTC
12 Jan 2014 10:20 Local
Exposed Population:
1962311 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Jan 2014 02:42 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Meteo assessment
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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 (40), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),