M 5.5 in Philippines on 18 Dec 2025 07:27 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 1515692
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 40.1 Km
Lat/Lon: 19.9069 , 121.2425
Event Date: 18 Dec 2025 07:27 UTC
18 Dec 2025 15:27 Local
Exposed Population: 20 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 18 Dec 2025 07:38 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000rvmn 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, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

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5.7-magnitude quake hits waters near Philippines -- GFZ 12/22/2025 12:48:00 AM.

BEIJING, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 jolted waters near the Philippines at 1753 GMT on Sunday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10 km, was initially determined
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),