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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Tubajon in Philippines


Earthquake location 10.2743S, 125.4967WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Tubajon in Philippines. The temblor was picked up at 15:43:11 / 3:43 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 123.151 km (77 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 125.4967 East, latitude 10.2743 North, depth = 123.151 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/02/25 / 2025-02-02 15:43:11 / February 2, 2025 @ 3:43 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000pau4. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pau4.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Burauen, Giporlos, Balangiga (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Maasin (c. 18 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Baybay (c. 17 700 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Abuyog (c. 15 600 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Burauen (c. 14 300 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Guiuan (c. 11 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km SW of Tubajon, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.4967° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.2743° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 123.151 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9 km SW of Tubajon, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-02 15:43:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-02 16:01:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 385 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 69 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.185 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000pau4 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pau4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pau4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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