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Strong earthquake 6.2 mag, 269 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines


Earthquake location 4.5098S, 127.7584WA earthquake magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) strikes 269 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines (167 miles) on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 117.827 km (73 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/04/25 / 2025-04-22 10:17:13 / April 22, 2025 @ 10:17 am. Id of earthquake: us7000pu62. Event ids that are associated: us7000pu62. Exact location of event, depth 117.827 km, 127.7584° East, 4.5098° North. The 6.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:17:13 / 10:17 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 269 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.7584° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.5098° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 117.827 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 269 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-04-22 10:17:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-22 10:36:42 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 591 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 145 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.283 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 24 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 us7000pu62 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pu62 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pu62, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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