It affects the southern coastal towns from Anda in the east to Maribojoc in the west.

The Mw  7.2 earthquake produced a ~50-km-long, ~12-km-wide northeast trending zone of uplift with an ~8-km-long discontinuous ground rupture indicating predominantly reverse-slip movement on a southeast dipping fault.

[7] Displacement along the northeastern segment of the NBF in Inabanga is significantly larger in the northeast than in the southwest.

[7] Documentation of the nearly continuous northern terminus of the earthquake ground rupture revealed its association to preexisting scarps of the previously unmapped, quaternary-active North Bohol Fault.

Onshore geologic mapping and offshore seismic reflection profiles demonstrate the presence of an island-wide, northeast–southwest trending fold-and-thrust belt through which deformation related to the regional shortening across the Visayan Sea Basin in the central Philippines is likely distributed.