Earthquakes in Philippines, 2017–2026
From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 4,045 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in or off Philippines. 8 of them reached magnitude 7 or more; the strongest was a magnitude 7.8 on June 7, 2026 (25 km SW of Kablalan, Philippines).
The last 30 days · as of
USGS recorded 15 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in the area the map frames in the last 30 days.
The latest: magnitude 4.5 on October 23 (18 km WNW of Bantogon, Philippines). The strongest: magnitude 5.5 on October 8 (13 km SW of Burias, Philippines).
What the record holds
It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 107 deaths for it. 27 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 21 of the events here, 519 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 6.3 on August 5, 2026 (32 km SW of Sarangani, Philippines). NOAA lists 8 tsunamis that began in or off Philippines. The highest water NOAA records here was 1.48 m, on June 7, 2026. The deadliest, on June 7, 2026, killed 2 people here by NOAA’s runup records. NOAA lists 4 significant eruptions of 3 volcanoes in or off Philippines. The largest was Taal on January 12, 2020, at 4 on the volcanic explosivity index. It killed 39 people by NOAA’s count.
The events
- August 5, 2026Earthquake · M 6.332 km SW of Sarangani, PhilippinesUSGS · NOAA NCEI
- June 7, 2026Earthquake · M 7.825 km SW of Kablalan, Philippines · 107 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- June 7, 2026Tsunami · 1.48 m hereMindanao Island, Philippines · 2 deaths here (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- October 10, 2025Earthquake · M 7.412 km E of Santiago, Philippines · 10 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- September 30, 2025Earthquake · M 6.98 km ESE of Calape, Philippines · 79 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- December 2, 2023Earthquake · M 7.619 km E of Gamut, Philippines · 3 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- August 11, 2021Earthquake · M 7.160 km ENE of Pondaguitan, Philippines · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
- January 12, 2020Eruption · VEI 4Taal · 39 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- January 10, 2017Earthquake · M 7.3189 km SSE of Tabiauan, PhilippinesUSGS
Good to know
- An event counts for Philippines when it began inside its borders, or at sea within 100 km of its coast (so one can count for two neighbours), or further out, up to 300 km, where Philippines is the nearest country.
- USGS counts are its ComCat catalogue’s earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more, aftershocks included.
- 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.
- The map frames the box around Philippines, its neighbours’ quakes included, so its count runs higher than this page’s.
- Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.
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