M 4.5 in Philippines on 01 Dec 2025 18:32 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 1512828
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 58.1 Km
Lat/Lon: 8.9684 , 126.2949
Event Date: 01 Dec 2025 18:32 UTC
02 Dec 2025 02:32 Local
Exposed Population:
200 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 01 Dec 2025 18:56 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000rewm 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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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),