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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Rapu-Rapu in Philippines

Posted by admin on May 29, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.173S, 124.1463WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Rapu-Rapu in Philippines on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/05/25 / 2025-05-29 18:35:14 / May 29, 2025 @ 6:35 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us6000qgqa. Event ids that are associated: us6000qgqa. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:35:14 / 6:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 124.1463 East, latitude 13.173 North, depth = 91.191 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 91.191 km (57 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Legaspi (c. 179 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Iriga City (c. 94 800 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Sorsogon (c. 82 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Polangui (c. 77 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Libon (c. 68 800 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Tabaco (c. 57 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Catarman (c. 47 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Claveria, Bula, Mondragon.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 2 km SE of Rapu-Rapu, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.1463° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.173° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 91.191 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km SE of Rapu-Rapu, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-05-29 18:35:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-29 18:54:54 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 369 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 80 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 6.227 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us6000qgqa Id of event.
Event Code 6000qgqa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qgqa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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