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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Cabodiongan in Philippines

Posted by admin on May 27, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.8093S, 125.0971WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Cabodiongan in Philippines on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 23.287 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:36:28 / 9:36 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 07/05/25 / 2025-05-07 09:36:28 / May 7, 2025 @ 9:36 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000q0uk. Unique identifier: us7000q0uk. Exact location, longitude 125.0971° East, latitude 12.8093° North, depth = 23.287 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dolores, Alegria, Allen (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 61 km (38 miles) from Catarman (c. 47 400 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Laoang (c. 16 700 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Pambujan (c. 10 800 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Dolores (c. 9 300 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Gamay (c. 9 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Oras (c. 9 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Palapag (c. 8 300 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 16 km NNE of Cabodiongan, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.0971° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.8093° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.287 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16 km NNE of Cabodiongan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-05-07 09:36:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-27 04:42:09 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 312 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 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.723 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 111 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 us7000q0uk Id of event.
Event Code 7000q0uk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000q0uk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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