M 4.6 in Philippines on 18 Dec 2025 23:43 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 1515809
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 15.7731 , 119.3382
Event Date: 18 Dec 2025 23:43 UTC
19 Dec 2025 07:43 Local
Exposed Population:
730 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 19 Dec 2025 02:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000rvvq 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),