M6.7 Earthquake Near Kablalan, Philippines, Nov 17, 2023

Map

Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.

The earthquake

Magnitude: 6.7 (Mww, W-phase moment), strong
Magnitude from: USGS National Earthquake Information Center
Local time: Fri, Nov 17, 2023, 4:14 PM GMT+8
UTC: 2023-11-17 08:14:10 UTC
Depth: 52.0 km (32.3 mi), shallow
Epicenter: 5.563° N, 125.001° E
Region: Philippines
Felt reports: 215
Strongest shaking: VIII, severe shaking
PAGER alert: Yellow
Tsunami flag: Yes: a large quake in an oceanic region
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

Magnitude estimates

Different scales measure different things and differ by a few tenths. The USGS marks one as preferred, and it is the one this page uses.

Mag.	Scale	Computed by	Notes
6.7	Mww, W-phase moment	USGS National Earthquake Information Center	Preferred · Reviewed · ±0.038 · 66 stations
7.2	Mi	NOAA National Tsunami Warning Center	Reviewed · 12 stations
7.2	Mi	NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center	Reviewed · 4 stations
6.6	Mi	NOAA National Tsunami Warning Center	First automatic solution · Reviewed · 3 stations
6.8	Mwb, body-wave moment	USGS National Earthquake Information Center	Moment tensor · Reviewed

Deaths and damage

From NOAA NCEI’s Significant Earthquake Database (record 10719), matched to this event by time and place.

Deaths: 11
Injuries: 37
Damage: $29.3 million
Houses destroyed: 602
Houses damaged: 5,983

Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.

NOAA’s full record of this earthquake

From Wikipedia

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 Mww 6.7 or Mw 6.8. 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.

Text from Wikipedia, “November 2023 Mindanao earthquake”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted as written; the full article has the rest.

The article is about the earthquake NOAA’s record describes, matched to this one by date, place and magnitude.

Wikidata records: 11 deaths and 730 injured. These are counts entered by Wikidata’s editors; they may differ from the official count, and this page never adds them to another figure. Q123474732, CC0.

What happened

The USGS’s account of the effects of this earthquake.

At least eleven people killed and 730 injured; 644 homes destroyed and 4,248 damaged; several bridges, public buildings and roads damaged; power outages occurred in Davao Region and Soccsksargen. Landslides and liquefaction occurred near Glan.

From the USGS event page for us6000lp12. U.S. Geological Survey text and figures are in the public domain.

Tsunami

The USGS flags a quake this large in an oceanic region. The flag does not mean a tsunami happened; the tsunami warning centers decide that, and their messages are below when they issued any.

Tsunami Information for Hawaii from the PTWC. Read the message
Tsunami Information Bulletin from the PTWC. Read the message

Current tsunami warnings: tsunami.gov. Warnings in force in the US also appear on our alerts pages.

Shaking

The USGS ShakeMap: shaking estimated from seismic stations and the quake’s size, on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale.

Strongest estimated: VIII, severe shaking
Peak ground acceleration: 35.9% of gravity
Peak ground velocity: 31.4 cm/s
Map: Automatic

USGS ShakeMap: estimated shaking intensity around the epicenter — Estimated shaking intensity. Map: USGS ShakeMap.

Did you feel it?

215 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was IX, violent shaking.

Estimated impact

The USGS PAGER system estimates deaths and economic losses from the shaking and the population and buildings exposed to it.

Alert level: Yellow: some damage and deaths possible, a local or regional response

Deaths: estimated chance of each range
Range	Chance
Under 1	11%
1 to 10	36%
10 to 100	39%
100 to 1,000	13%
1,000 to 10,000	1%
10,000 to 100,000	Under 1%
100,000 to 10,000,000	Under 1%

Economic losses: estimated chance of each range
Range, million USD	Chance
Under 1	5%
1 to 10	21%
10 to 100	39%
100 to 1,000	28%
1,000 to 10,000	8%
10,000 to 100,000	Under 1%
100,000 to 10,000,000	Under 1%

Fault motion and ground failure

How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.

Faulting: Reverse (thrust)
Moment magnitude: 6.7 Mww
Nodal plane 1: Strike 158°, dip 44°, rake 71°
Nodal plane 2: Strike 3°, dip 49°, rake 107°
Landslide alert: Yellow
Liquefaction alert: Orange

How well it is located

Reviewed by a seismologist.

Location uncertainty: About 6.7 km horizontally, 1.9 km in depth
Magnitude uncertainty: ±0.04
Depth from: From modeling of broad-band P waveforms
Station coverage gap: 21°
Stations used: 244

Nearest places

Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.

Nearby

Within 100 km, magnitude 3.7 and up: 11 in the 60 days after this one and 2 in the 30 days before it.

After

Before

Sources

From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us6000lp12 (also filed as pt23321001, at00s49djq). Read Fri, Oct 2, 2026, 11:32 AM UTC.