Overview

• Authorities reported a shallow magnitude 6.9 earthquake offshore near Bogo, Cebu, late Sept. 30, with PHIVOLCS and USGS placing the depth at roughly 5–10 km.
• The national disaster council listed 26 dead and 147 injured, while Cebu’s provincial officials and the Office of Civil Defense later cited higher, still‑to‑be‑verified totals of about 60 to 69 fatalities.
• Cebu province enacted a state of calamity to unlock emergency funding and speed relief operations as search-and-rescue continued and hospitals treated overflow casualties.
• Local officials documented damaged bridges and roads, a collapsed educational center on Bantayan Island, and a partial collapse of the historic Santa Rosa de Lima church facade in Daanbantayan, alongside power outages.
• PHIVOLCS urged coastal evacuations in Cebu, Leyte and Biliran during a localized tsunami advisory, which was followed by a PTWC assessment of no significant tsunami threat, and tens to hundreds of aftershocks were recorded, including around magnitude 5.0.