M 5.5 in Philippines on 15 Jun 2026 15:30 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 1546507
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 72.3 Km
Lat/Lon: 5.658 , 125.2618
Event Date: 15 Jun 2026 15:30 UTC
15 Jun 2026 23:30 Local
Exposed Population: 3.9 million in MMI IV
Inserted at: 15 Jun 2026 15:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000st48 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),