M 4.8 in Philippines on 16 Jul 2026 01:15 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 1552103
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 19.6199 , 121.3792
Event Date: 16 Jul 2026 01:15 UTC
16 Jul 2026 09:15 Local
Exposed Population:
8 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 16 Jul 2026 02:50 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000t0uy 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, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Decline in Journo-murders During the First Half of 2026 7/19/2026 2:09:00 PM.

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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 (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),