Ormoc

Earthquakes near Ormoc through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 12 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Ormoc, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. 6 of them reached magnitude 7 or more; the strongest on either list was an estimated magnitude 8.1 on October 18, 1897 (Northern Samar).

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The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Ormoc in the last 30 days.

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What the record holds

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 7.1 on October 15, 2013 (4 km SE of Sagbayan, Philippines), for which NOAA records 222 deaths. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 10 here, back to 1743. NOAA records deaths in 5 of the events here, 477 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 6.9 on September 30, 2025 (8 km ESE of Calape, Philippines). NOAA’s record here begins in September 1743 with an earthquake (Leyte). 5 of the 10 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here came before 1927. NOAA lists one tsunami that began within 100 km of Ormoc. It reached 12 m, on April 12, 2022.

The events

  • September 30, 2025Earthquake · M 6.98 km ESE of Calape, Philippines · 79 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • April 12, 2022Tsunami · 12 m highAbuyog, LeyteNOAA NCEI
  • October 15, 2013Earthquake · M 7.14 km SE of Sagbayan, Philippines · 222 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • October 18, 1897Earthquake · M 8.1 (est.)Northern SamarNOAA NCEI
  • May 13, 1897Earthquake · M 7.9 (est.)Masbate IslandNOAA NCEI
  • September 1743EarthquakeLeyteNOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Ormoc 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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