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The web page provides a comprehensive list of earthquakes that have occurred in the Philippines since 1601, with details on magnitude, intensity, casualties and sources. The strongest earthquake in the Philippines was the 1918 Celebes Sea earthquake with Mw 8.3, followed by the 1976 Moro Gulf earthquake with Mw 8.0.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) initially reported a magnitude 6.5 earthquake striking at 8:03 am Philippine Standard Time (PST) in Cataingan, Masbate. [9] The report was later revised to a magnitude 6.6 earthquake. The earthquake was also felt in several parts of Luzon and the Visayas. [6]
United States Geological Survey shake map for the 2019 Luzon earthquake; a maximum Mercalli intensity scale value of 6.6 was observed in Gutad, Floridablanca, Pampanga. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) initially reported an earthquake of magnitude 5.7 striking at 17:11 PST with an epicenter two kilometers N 28° E of Castillejos, Zambales.
A magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck Bohol and Cebu islands in the Philippines on October 15, 2013, killing 222 people and damaging over 14,500 structures. The earthquake was caused by a previously unknown fault, the North Bohol Fault, and was followed by aftershocks and typhoon Haiyan.
The 2019 Cotabato earthquakes were an earthquake swarm which struck the province of Cotabato on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines in October 2019. [6] Three of these earthquakes were above 6.0 on the moment magnitude scale with a Mercalli intensity of VIII. More than 40 people have been reported dead or missing and nearly 800 were ...
The 2019 Batanes earthquake was a magnitude 6.0 earthquake which struck Batanes, Philippines on July 27, 2019. It was preceded by a 5.4 magnitude foreshock . Nine people were killed by the combined effects of the earthquakes.
On July 6, 2017, a 6.5 magnitude earthquake hit Leyte, causing at least 4 deaths and 100 injuries. The quake also caused power interruptions in the whole of Eastern Visayas and nearby Bohol . The Philippine archipelago is located in the Pacific Ring of Fire , where earthquakes and volcanic activity are common.
The 2019 Eastern Samar Earthquake struck the islands of Visayas in the Philippines on April 23, 2019 at 1:37:51 p.m. (). [3] It had a moment magnitude of 6.5 [3] (M ww 6.4 by USGS) [4] and a local magnitude of 6.2 [5] with a max intensity of VI based on the PHIVOLCS Earthquake Intensity Scale(PEIS). [3]