Overall Green Earthquake alert in Philippines on 20 Dec 2024 23:53 UTC

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M 4.9 in Philippines on 20 Dec 2024 23:53 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 1458702
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	17.513 , 119.5231
Event Date:	20 Dec 2024 23:53 UTC 21 Dec 2024 07:53 Local
Exposed Population:	820 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at:	21 Dec 2024 00:20 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Philippines)

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000p0ia	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 rapid impact	0
	C2 rapid impact	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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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),

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