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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Calatagan in Philippines


Earthquake location 13.6777S, 120.6849WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Calatagan in Philippines. Exact location of event, longitude 120.6849 East, latitude 13.6777 North, depth = 184.204 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000qj67. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000qj67. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/06/25 / 2025-06-09 16:05:00 / June 9, 2025 @ 4:05 pm. The temblor was reported at 16:05:00 / 4:05 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 184.204 km (114 miles).

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Dasmariñas (c. 441 900 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Bacoor (c. 357 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Calamba (c. 316 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from San Pedro (c. 270 200 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Batangas (c. 237 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lucban, Orion, Tayabas (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

Questions or comments?

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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 18 km SSE of Calatagan, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.6849° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.6777° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 184.204 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18 km SSE of Calatagan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-06-09 16:05:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-09 16:24:43 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 400 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 154 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 8.141 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 19 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 us6000qj67 Id of event.
Event Code 6000qj67 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qj67, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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