Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Minuri in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Minuri in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:15:43 / 10:15 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.991 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.362 East, latitude 16.3761 North, depth = 9.991 km. Event id: us7000pzf5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pzf5. Global time and date of event 30/04/25 / 2025-04-30 22:15:43 / April 30, 2025 @ 10:15 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cabarroguis, Gamu, Santiago (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Santiago (c. 108 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Alicia (c. 24 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Mariano (c. 12 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Maddela (c. 9 800 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Naguilian (c. 8 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Echague (c. 8 100 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 two 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 56 km ESE of Minuri, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	122.362° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	16.3761° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.991 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	56 km ESE of Minuri, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-04-30 22:15:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-19 01:35:06	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	298	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	30	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	6.521	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.49 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	119	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	us7000pzf5	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pzf5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pzf5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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