M 5.6 in Philippines on 09 Jul 2019 12:37 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 1183213
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 24.02 Km
Lat/Lon: 6.8016 , 125.1687
Event Date: 09 Jul 2019 12:37 UTC
09 Jul 2019 20:37 Local
Exposed Population: 230000 people in MMI
8160000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Jul 2019 12:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
us70004fsk Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0.43  
  C2 shakemap 0.27  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.89  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 72 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

25 injured in Philippines earthquakeSat, 13 Jul 2019 11:02:00 +0200.

Amman, July 13 (Petra)-- At least 25 people were injured, early Saturday, and several houses, churches and buildings were damaged when a 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Surigao del Sur province in Philippines, police said . The Philippine I
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At least 25 injured in 5.5-magnitude earthquake in southern Philippine ... Sat, 13 Jul 2019 09:29:00 +0200.

MANILA, July 13 (Xinhua) -- At least 25 people were injured and several houses, churches and buildings were damaged when a 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Surigao del Sur province in southern Philippines early on Saturday, a government disa
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1st LD Writethru: At least 25 injured in 5.5-magnitude earthquake in s ... Sat, 13 Jul 2019 09:08:00 +0200.

MANILA, July 13 (Xinhua) -- At least 25 people were injured and several houses, churches and buildings were damaged when a 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Surigao del Sur province in southern Philippines early on Saturday, a government disa
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5.5-magnitude earthquake rattles southern PhilippinesSat, 13 Jul 2019 08:58:00 +0200.

earthquake. A 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck Surigao del Sur province in southern Philippines on Saturday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. The institute said the quake, which struck at 4:42 a.m. loca
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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),