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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near San Fernando in Philippines


Earthquake location 16.6772S, 120.2396WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from San Fernando in Philippines on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 24/05/25 / 2025-05-24 02:36:10 / May 24, 2025 @ 2:36 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 02:36:10 / 2:36 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 120.2396° East, 16.6772° North, depth 35 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000q18d. Id of event: us7000q18d.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Cruz, Baggabag B, Bantay (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Baguio (c. 272 700 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Urdaneta (c. 101 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Mangaldan (c. 88 800 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from San Fernando (c. 83 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Manaoag (c. 59 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Lingayen (c. 56 600 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Vigan (c. 48 500 pop).

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km NW of San Fernando, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.2396° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.6772° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10 km NW of San Fernando, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-05-24 02:36:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-24 02:58:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 416 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 75 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 6.159 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us7000q18d Id of event.
Event Code 7000q18d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000q18d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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