ASEANEWS HEADLINE-EARTHQUAKE | CEBU CITY, Philippines: Cebu shaken: Deadly quake kills 26 as search ongoing
Composite handout photographs show a destroyed church in Daanbantayan, Cebu province (left) and the cross of a church at Bantayan Island falling after a 6.9-magnitude earthquake./ AFP/Vince Sylvan A. Toring; AFP/Martham Pacilan
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Massive 6.9 Earthquake in Philippines Now! Cebu Shook,People in Panic!
On the evening of Tuesday, September 30, 2025, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck off the coast of Bogo City in Cebu. Due to its shallow depth, the quake was strongly felt across Cebu, Leyte, Samar, and Negros Oriental. Historic religious structures were damaged, classes were suspended, and thousands of residents rushed into the streets in panic. Authorities have issued warnings about possible aftershocks, and fear continues to grip the region.
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Magnitude 6.9 quake jolts Cebu
MANILA, Philippines — A powerful earthquake struck Cebu last night, sending residents rushing out of their homes, damaging heritage churches and prompting the evacuation of a hospital in Cebu City.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the magnitude 6.9 tectonic earthquake struck at 9:59 p.m., with its epicenter located east of Bogo City in Cebu and its depth at 10 kilometers. Phivolcs warned that aftershocks were expected.
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CEBU, Philippines (2nd updated 8:43 a.m.) — The death toll from a powerful quake that rocked the central Philippines has risen to 26, with 147 others injured, the government’s disaster relief agency said Wednesday, October 1.
The shallow 6.9-magnitude quake that struck off the island of Cebu late Tuesday toppled or damaged at least 22 buildings across the central Philippines, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said in its latest bulletin.
The toll is feared to continue rising as rescuers worked through the night.
The quake stuck off the island’s northern end near Bogo, a city of 90,000 people. There, at least thirteen were reported killed within 100 kilometers from the epicenter.
One person was killed in the Cebu town of Tabuelan, according to its mayor, in addition to five fatalities rescuers earlier reported in the town of San Remigio to its north.
Four bodies were pulled from a sports centre in San Remigio, while a child was crushed by debris in another area of the town, Manila-based network ABS-CBN reported from the scene as of 5 a.m..
The Cebu provincial government has put out a call on its official Facebook page for medical volunteers to assist in the aftermath of the quake.
“There could be people trapped beneath collapsed buildings,” provincial rescue official Wilson Ramos told AFP, citing rescue efforts underway in San Remigio and Bogo. He said he did not know how many people were missing.
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Recovery efforts were being hampered by the dark as well as aftershocks, he added. The USGS has recorded four quakes of magnitude 5.0 or higher in the area following the first tremor.
A number of village roads also sustained damage.
From Interaksyon: Video shows Magnitude 6.9 quake damages church in Bantayan as tremors cause widespread damage
The quake caused power lines to trip, leading to outages across Cebu and nearby central islands, the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines said in an advisory, adding it was still assessing the extent of the damage.
Cebu firefighter Joey Leeguid told AFP from San Fernando town: “We felt the shake here in our station, it was so strong. We saw our locker moving from left to right, we felt slightly dizzy for a while but we are all fine now.”
‘In shock’
Martham Pacilan, a 25-year-old resident of the resort town of Bantayan, also near the epicentre, said he was at the town square near a church, which was damaged by the quake.
“I heard a loud booming noise from the direction of the church then I saw rocks falling from the structure. Luckily no one got hurt,” he told AFP.
“I was in shock and in panic at the same time but my body couldn’t move, I was just there waiting for the shake to stop.”
Composite handout photographs show a destroyed church in Daanbantayan, Cebu province (left) and the cross of a church at Bantayan Island falling after a 6.9-magnitude earthquake.
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Agnes Merza, a carer based in Bantayan, said her kitchen tiles had cracked.
“It felt as though we would all fall down. It’s the first time I have experienced it. The neighbours all ran out of their homes. My two teenage assistants hid under a table because that’s what they were taught in the boy scouts,” the 65-year-old told AFP.
The Cebu provincial government reported a commercial building and a school in Bantayan had collapsed, while a fast food restaurant in Bogo was heavily damaged.
In a live video message on her official Facebook account, Cebu provincial governor Pamela Baricuatro urged residents to “stay calm and move to open areas; keep away from walls or structures that may collapse and stay alert for aftershocks.”
She said the provincial government was assessing the situation and reaching out to municipal officials.
The USGS had reported a magnitude reading of 7.0, before revising it down, while the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no tsunami threat from the earthquake.
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Quakes are a near-daily occurrence in the Philippines, which is situated on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, an arc of intense seismic activity stretching from Japan through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin.
Most are too weak to be felt by humans, but strong and destructive ones come at random, with no technology available to predict when and where they might strike.
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Magnitude 6.9 quake jolts Cebu
