Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Polomolok in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Polomolok in Philippines on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pz08. Unique identifier: us7000pz08. The temblor was reported at 10:06:25 / 10:06 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 161.487 km (100 miles). Global time and date of event 27/04/25 / 2025-04-27 10:06:25 / April 27, 2025 @ 10:06 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 161.487 km, 125.0515° East, 6.2324° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Kidapawan (c. 79 700 pop), 2 km (1 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Bañga (c. 58 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Amas, Baracatan, Sibulan.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 1 km NW of Polomolok, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.0515° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.2324° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	161.487 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1 km NW of Polomolok, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-04-27 10:06:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-19 14:07:33	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.983	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	128	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	us7000pz08	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pz08	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pz08,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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