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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 6 km NW of Taft, Philippines

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Earthquake location 11.9495S, 125.3842WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Taft in Philippines. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 41.491 km (26 miles). The temblor was reported at 22:10:20 / 10:10 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pucu. Id of event: us7000pucu. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/04/25 / 2025-04-22 22:10:20 / April 22, 2025 @ 10:10 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 125.3842 East, latitude 11.9495 North, depth = 41.491 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palo, Culaba, Caibiran. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 88 km (55 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Catbalogan (c. 68 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Calbayog City (c. 67 900 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Palo (c. 17 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Laoang (c. 16 700 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Borongan (c. 16 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Pambujan (c. 10 800 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 6 km NW of Taft, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.3842° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.9495° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.491 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km NW of Taft, 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 22:10:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-24 02:17:49 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 326 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 86 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.853 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000pucu Id of event.
Event Code 7000pucu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pucu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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