M 7 in Philippines from 30 Sep 2025 13:59 UTC to 13:59

Event summary

This earthquake is expected to have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

Earthquake Magnitude: 7.0M
Glide number: EQ-2025-000181-PHL
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 11.1 , 124.3
Event Date: 30 Sep 2025 13:59 UTC
30 Sep 2025 21:59 Local
Exposed Population: 380 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Source: NTWC at00t3emvp
Inserted at: 30 Sep 2025 14:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score: 4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)
Tsunami GDACS score
NTWC 1.4 0.6 1.4
at00t3emvp Scaled population (raster) 4.52 Max wave alert 0.69m  
  C1 rapid impact 0.43 Max wave realtime 0.69m  
  C2 rapid impact 0.27      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.89      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

The green area correspond to areas affected by strong shaking (MMI VI or higher) according to the simulation.


Episode Timeline

IDLevelScoreDateMag, DepthMMI*Population**Tsunami risk***Delay (hh:mm)Source
1663303 1.4 30 Sep 2025 13:59 7M, 10km 7.51 380 thousand (in MMI>=VII) 0.7m (at 00:15) 00:11 PTWC
1663305 1.4 30 Sep 2025 13:59 7M, 10km 7.51 380 thousand (in MMI>=VII) 0.7m (at 00:41) 00:12 NTWC
1663312 1.4 30 Sep 2025 13:59 6.9M, 10km 7.43 290 thousand (in MMI>=VII) 0.7m (at 00:10) 00:20 NEIC
The episode that generated the alert; the next major evaluations beyond 12 hours will not trigger additional alerts.
The episode that has the last updated information.
* The max MMI detected for sources having shakemaps;
** The population detected in MMI>=7 for episode with shakemap or in a 100km radius;
*** The tsunami max height.

Rapid Impact

The results presented below are calculated with the ShakeMap open source software (USGS) using only earthquake hypocenter information to provide a rapid estimation of the ground motion and shaking intensity without taking into account any instrumental observations or earthquake source scaling laws.

Exposed population

Intensity Population
<1000 people
380000 people
1.9 million people
8.2 million people

Affected Provinces

Critical infrastructure

Airports, ports, nuclear plants and hydrodams at risk, if affected, are listed below.

More information

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