M 5.5 in Philippines on 15 Jul 2025 02:38 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 1490200
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 48.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.1361 , 120.6545
Event Date: 15 Jul 2025 02:38 UTC
15 Jul 2025 10:38 Local
Exposed Population: 20 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 15 Jul 2025 02:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000qcqe 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, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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),