Earthquakes near Mati, 1927–2026

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 7.8 on June 7, 2026 (25 km SW of Kablalan, Philippines), for which NOAA records 107 deaths. 12 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 5 of the events here, 123 in all. The ten years with the most magnitude 6+ earthquakes were 2017–2026, with 14 of the 49. NOAA lists 5 tsunamis that began within 100 km of Mati. The highest water NOAA records here was 6 m, on May 17, 1992.

• June 7, 2026Earthquake · M 7.825 km SW of Kablalan, Philippines · 107 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• May 17, 1992Tsunami · 6 m herePhilippinesNOAA NCEI
• December 2, 1972Earthquake · M 8.01972 Mindanao, Philippines EarthquakeUSGS · NOAA NCEI
• May 25, 1943Earthquake · M 7.877 km E of Baculin, PhilippinesUSGS · NOAA NCEI

• An event counts for Mati 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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