M 4.5 in Philippines on 13 Jul 2025 04:24 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 1489912
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 174 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.5623 , 120.8212
Event Date: 13 Jul 2025 04:24 UTC
13 Jul 2025 12:24 Local
Exposed Population:
11.8 million in MMI III
Inserted at: 13 Jul 2025 05:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000qccv Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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No tsunami threat after strong Alaska quake, says PHIVOLCS 7/16/2025 10:01:00 PM.

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Earthquake and fire 7/16/2025 4:05:00 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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),