M 5.9 in Philippines on 19 Apr 2025 16:11 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 1477977
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 12 Km
Lat/Lon: 5.8624 , 124.1126
Event Date: 19 Apr 2025 16:11 UTC
20 Apr 2025 00:11 Local
Exposed Population: 740 thousand in MMI&>=IV
Inserted at: 22 Apr 2025 21:22 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000q78l Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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),