M 4.8 in Philippines on 22 Jul 2025 17:23 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 1491504
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 7.6102 , 127.172
Event Date: 22 Jul 2025 17:23 UTC
23 Jul 2025 01:23 Local
Exposed Population:
180 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 22 Jul 2025 19:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000qu6e 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, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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),