M6.9 Philippines

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Posting Date: October 1, 2025, 11:00:00 AM

A magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck near Bogo City in the Philippine province of Cebu on Tuesday night. Bogo itself was the worst affected city from this event – homes, businesses, and bridges saw structural damage, including the collapse of a 100-year-old church. In San Remigio, a sports complex hosting a basketball game collapsed, killing one person and injuring several others. Elsewhere, in Daanbantayan, the Municipal Hall showed a large crack down an exterior wall, and the facade of the St. Rita church saw significant damage. More than 500,000 persons were in areas of very strong shaking (defined as Modified Mercalli Index, or MMI = 7), with another 2.9 million, including the city of Cebu, subject to strong shaking (MMI = 6), per the USGS.

ALERT™ subscribers can download similar stochastic event (SSE) IDs for this earthquake’s impacts in the Philippines from the Downloads tab of this posting on the ALERT website. Compatible with Touchstone® and Touchstone Re™, the SSEs were selected based on the event’s magnitude, location, depth, and other key earthquake parameters. They should only be used with exposures in the Philippines.

No additional ALERT postings are currently planned for this event. Please contact your Verisk representative with any questions.

Similar Stochastic Events | Downloads
Posting Date: October 1, 2025, 11:00:00 AM

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Similar Stochastic Event IDs

Note: These lists give event IDs taken from our stochastic catalog that have similar characteristics as the 30th September earthquake in the Philippines.

Product	File Type	Description	Download
TOUCHSTONE / Re	Excel (xls)	Selected set of stochastic events, with Readme in Excel format
TOUCHSTONE / Re	CSV (csv)	Selected set of stochastic events, formatted for import into Touchstone/Re