To date news reports suggest two fatal landslides with a combined toll of 17 people.
There are various news reports trickling in about the landslides triggered by the 8 June 2026 M=7.8 earthquake offshore Mindanao in the Philippines. As usual, the remote locations of many of the landslides means that the information is a bit hit and miss at this point.
To date, the most serious event appears to have occurred at a community called New Aklan, located in Glan, Sarangani. It appears that New Aklan is at: [5.7705 N, 125.3356]. News reports indicate that 13 people were killed, although there are also indications of additional fatalities in this area.
A further four people are missing under a landslide at Sitio Buhangin, Barangay Patuco, Sarangani. Patuco is in the area of [5.4770, 125.4859]. This appears to have been a failure on a coastal cliff:-
Over the next few days, satellite imagery should become available that will help identify the landslide impacts, but in the meantime Dan Shugar has identified some (using Planet imagery, I’d imagine):-
