M 5 in Philippines on 15 Jul 2013 01:28 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 1000501
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 28.88 Km
Lat/Lon: 7.3932 , 125.002
Event Date: 15 Jul 2013 01:28 UTC
15 Jul 2013 09:28 Local
Exposed Population:
7530242 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Jul 2013 03:50 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
USGS 0.5 0.5
usB000IE8V 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 181 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Massive Portuguese earthquake 'may send a three-metre high tsunami tow ... Wed, 17 Jul 2013 04:34:00 +0200.

Experts say that much of the south-western British coast including islands such as Tresco in the Isles of Scilly, pictured, would be destroyed within four to six hours if there were to be a repeat of the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755.
Massive Portuguese earthquake 'may send a three-metre high tsunami tow ... Wed, 17 Jul 2013 03:48:00 +0200.

Experts say that much of the south-western British coast including islands such as Tresco in the Isles of Scilly, pictured, would be destroyed within four to six hours if there were to be a repeat of the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755.
Isles of Scilly 'would be sunk by tsunami in event of earthquake'Wed, 17 Jul 2013 02:56:00 +0200.

Scientists fear a repeat of the Great Lisbon ­Earthquake of 1755, which killed up to 100,000 and set off a tsunami
Cornwall tsunami fearWed, 17 Jul 2013 01:45:00 +0200.

MASSIVE earthquake off Portugal could trigger Cornish tsunami which would decimate Britain’s coastline, boffins warn

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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),