Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Malisbeng in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Malisbeng in Philippines. Id of earthquake: us7000pxai. Event ids that are associated: us7000pxai. Exact location of earthquake, 124.134° East, 5.8265° North, depth 35 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:10:19 / 5:10 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/04/25 / 2025-04-19 17:10:19 / April 19, 2025 @ 5:10 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (57 miles) from Surallah (c. 31 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Sebu (c. 21 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Kalamansig (c. 12 800 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Kiamba (c. 11 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Santo Niño (c. 9 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Maitum (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santo Niño, Surallah, Dahay (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 40 km SW of Malisbeng, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	124.134° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	5.8265° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	40 km SW of Malisbeng, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-04-19 17:10:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-14 16:20:38	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	284	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	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.724	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	80	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	us7000pxai	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pxai	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pxai,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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