What the records say
- When
- 30 Sep 2025
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 6.9
- Where
- Philippines
- Coordinates
- 11.15° N, 124.14° E
- Deaths
- 79
- Injuries
- 559
- Damage musd
- 1.25
- Houses destroyed
- 7400
- Intensity mmi
- 7
- Depth km
- 10
2025 Cebu earthquake
Magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the Philippines
On September 30, 2025, at 21:59:43 PHT, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale (Mw) struck the Visayas archipelago in the Philippines. It was the strongest earthquake ever recorded in northern Cebu and the deadliest in the country since 2013, with its epicenter located off the coast of Cebu Province in the Central Visayas region.
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- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A 6.9 earthquake shakes the island of Cebu in the Philippines, leaving 71 people dead and 559 injured”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “زلزال سيبو 2025 زلزال بقوة 6.9 درجة يضرب جزيرة سيبو في الفلبين، مما أسفر عن مقتل 71 شخصًا وإصابة 559 آخرين”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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