M 5.7 in Philippines on 27 Nov 2024 21:58 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 1455140
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 182.4 Km
Lat/Lon: 15.429 , 120.8401
Event Date: 27 Nov 2024 21:58 UTC
28 Nov 2024 05:58 Local
Exposed Population: 28.2 million in MMI IV
Inserted at: 27 Nov 2024 22:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000nul8 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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),