M 4.5 in Philippines on 13 Oct 2025 12:24 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 1504939
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 54.9 Km
Lat/Lon: 7.1111 , 126.988
Event Date: 13 Oct 2025 12:24 UTC
13 Oct 2025 20:24 Local
Exposed Population:
650 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 13 Oct 2025 13:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000rgup 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)

Latest media headlines

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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),