April 28, 2017 Earthquake: Sarangani, Philippines
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck Sarangani, Philippines on April 28, 2017 at 20:23:17 UTC, 26 km below the surface. It caused a tsunami.
Map
Where it struck, with the other significant earthquakes within 200 km. Circles are sized and colored by magnitude; select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Date
- April 28, 2017
- Time
- 20:23:17 UTC
- Place
- Sarangani, Philippines
- Magnitude
- 6.9 (Mw)
- Focal depth
- 26 km (16 mi)
- Intensity
- 9 on the Modified Mercalli scale
- Tsunami
- Yes: the tsunami it caused
- Epicenter
- 5.504° N, 125.066° E
- Country
- Philippines
The toll
- Injuries
- 5; 7 with its tsunami and other effects
- Damage
- Limited (under about $1 million)
- Houses destroyed
- 1
- Houses damaged
- Few (about 1 to 50)
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.
What the record says
NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.
A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the Philippines early Saturday, officials said, damaging several buildings and injuring two people as panicked residents fled the coast following a tsunami warning.
Residents were jolted from their beds and ran onto the streets as the earthquake shook the area, leaving cracks in a hospital, two government buildings and a port, as well as triggering the collapse of at least one house and causing a brief power outage.
Morallas said two people were injured during the evacuations in the Mindanao coastal towns of Glan and Malapatan. One person was hit by a falling rock while a pregnant woman hurt herself when she fell. (above from reference #11789)
Five people injured and several houses and schools damaged in the Sarangani-South Cotabato area. Balangonan, Southern Mindanao, Philippines - CDI: 9; Maitum, Southern Mindanao, Philippines - CDI: 7; Tinagacan, Southern Mindanao, Philippines - CDI: 7; San Jose (General Santos City, South Cotabato), Southern Mindanao, Philippines - CDI: 7; Katangawan, Southern Mindanao, Philippines - CDI: 6 (reference #13456)
Other significant earthquakes nearby
Within 200 km, the deadliest first.
- August 16, 1976, S, Mindanao, Philippines
- March 14, 1913, Sangihe Island, Indonesia
- June 7, 2026, S, Indonesia, Mindanao, Philippines
- December 19, 1928, Cotabato,n Coast of Illana Bay, Philippines
- August 15, 1918, Cotabato, Mindanao, Philippines
- March 5, 2002, Mindanao, Philippines
- December 15, 2019, Davao, Mindanao, Philippines
- October 29, 2019, Cotabato, Davao, Mindanao, Philippines
- November 17, 2023, Davao, Mindanao, Philippines
- October 31, 2019, Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Philippines
- January 31, 1917, Glan,glan Padidu,tuyan, S Mindanao, Philippines
- October 16, 2019, Cotabato, Davao, Mindanao, Philippines
- November 4, 1870, Davao,blanco, Mindanao, Philippines
- July 9, 2019, Makilala, Tulunan, Mindanao, Philippines
- August 5, 2026, Sarangani, Philippines
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Sources
Significant earthquakes from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24. NCEI earthquake 10245.