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Highly Urbanized City
Zamboanga Peninsula
Philippines · Asia
Zamboanga Peninsula is a highly urbanized city of the Philippines, in Asia. It lies on the Sunda Plate. Records include 3 tsunamis observed on its coasts.
Tectonic Plates
Hazard Levels
Hazard level assessed by ThinkHazard! (World Bank, GFDRR), meaning the likelihood of a damaging event, from very low to high.
- Urban FloodHigh
- Coastal FloodHigh
- LandslideHigh
- TsunamiHigh
- CycloneHigh
- WildfireHigh
- EarthquakeMedium
- Extreme HeatMedium
- River FloodLow
- VolcanoLow
- Water ScarcityVery Low
Tsunamis Observed on Its Coasts
- 2026Mindanao Island, Philippines · 2.5 m107 deaths
- 1976Moro Gulf, Philippines · 9.0 m8,000 deaths
- 1922Northern Chile, Chile · 5.5 m700 deaths
Sources: Natural Earth · Smithsonian GVP · NOAA NCEI · IBTrACS · GEM · Bird (2003), PB2002