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Many intraplate earthquakes of smaller magnitude also occur very regularly due to the interaction between the major tectonic plates in the region. The largest historical earthquake in the Philippines was the 1918 Celebes Sea earthquake with M w 8.3.
0–9. 1628 Camarines earthquake; 1645 Luzon earthquake; 1863 Manila earthquake; 1879 Surigao earthquake; 1880 Southern Luzon earthquakes; 1897 Mindanao earthquakes
The earthquake occurred as a result of shallow oblique-thrust faulting likely along the subduction interface of the Philippine Trench. At this location, the Philippine Sea plate moves west-northwest at a rate of about 103 mm (4.1 in) per year with respect to the Sunda plate. A finite fault model suggests rupture occurred around an elliptical ...
United States Geological Survey shake map for the 2019 Luzon earthquake; a maximum Mercalli intensity scale value of 6.6 was observed in Gutad, Floridablanca, Pampanga. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) initially reported an earthquake of magnitude 5.7 striking at 17:11 PST with an epicenter two kilometers N 28° E of Castillejos, Zambales.
PHIVOLCS initially suspected the earthquake may have occurred on the Abra River Fault. Geologists had been aware of the potential for large earthquakes on the fault. The last known earthquake on the fault was in 1868, measuring 4.0–5.0 in magnitude. [11] The Abra River Fault is a northern extension of the Philippine Fault Zone.
The bell tower of the Manila Cathedral after the series of destructive earthquakes of July 1880. The ruins of a church after the 2013 earthquake. The table below is a tally of the ten most deadly recorded earthquakes in the Philippines since the 1600s:
The 2010 Mindanao earthquakes occurred in the southern Philippines in the Moro Gulf.This was a complex sequence of events including three main events (a triplet earthquake) of M w magnitude 7.3 or greater on the 23rd of July, and two significant aftershocks of magnitude 6.6 on the 24th and 29th.
At 16:14 PST (08:14 UTC) on November 17, 2023, the province of Sarangani on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines was struck by an earthquake measuring 6.7 M ww. It had a maximum perceived intensity of VIII (Severe) on the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale. At least eleven people were killed and another 730 were treated for injuries.