Earthquakes near Manolo Fortich through history

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 7.6 on December 2, 2023 (19 km E of Gamut, Philippines), for which NOAA records 3 deaths. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 15 here, back to 1871. NOAA records deaths in 9 of the events here, 1,117 in all. NOAA’s record here begins on February 20, 1871 with an earthquake (Camiguin Island: Mambajao,Catarman). 8 of the 15 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here came before 1927. NOAA lists 2 tsunamis from elsewhere that reached the coast within 100 km of Manolo Fortich with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 1.12 m, on February 8, 1990. The deadliest here came on August 16, 1976 from a magnitude 8 earthquake (Moro Gulf): NOAA’s runup records count 222 deaths within 100 km of Manolo Fortich. NOAA lists 6 significant eruptions of 2 volcanoes within 100 km of Manolo Fortich. The largest was Camiguin on December 4, 1951, at 3 on the volcanic explosivity index. It killed 500 people by NOAA’s count.

• December 2, 2023Earthquake · M 7.619 km E of Gamut, Philippines · 3 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• February 8, 1990Tsunami · 1.12 m herePhilippinesNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• August 16, 1976Tsunami · 9 m highMoro Gulf · 222 deaths here (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• December 4, 1951Eruption · VEI 3Camiguin · 500 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• June 1949Eruption · VEI 3Camiguin · 2 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• July 12, 1911Earthquake · M 7.774 km ENE of Barcelona, PhilippinesUSGS · NOAA NCEI
• December 28, 1903Earthquake · M 7.1Mindanao, PhilippinesUSGS · NOAA NCEI
• February 20, 1871EarthquakeCamiguin Island: Mambajao,CatarmanNOAA NCEI

• An event counts for Manolo Fortich when it began within 100 km of its centre, or 200 km for an earthquake of magnitude 7 or more. Damage can reach further.
• USGS counts here start at magnitude 6: the catalogue’s smaller quakes thin out going back, where few instruments listened.
• NOAA lists significant events only: earthquakes that killed, did about $1 million of damage, reached magnitude 7.5 or intensity X, or raised a tsunami, and eruptions and tsunamis by like measures. Magnitudes before 1900 are its estimates from written accounts.
• Deaths are NOAA’s total for each event, wherever people died, its tsunami and fires included. A tsunami counts the dead its runup records give for this place: NOAA’s total for a tsunami includes its source quake’s.
• A tsunami from elsewhere counts where one of its runups killed or rose a metre or more.
• Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.

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