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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 26 km SSW of Sarangani, Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/06/25 / 2025-06-12 14:38:26 / June 12, 2025 @ 2:38 pm. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:38:26 / 2:38 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.852 km (25 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 125.379 East, latitude 5.1832 North, depth = 39.852 km. Id of earthquake: us6000qjtq. Event ids that are associated: us6000qjtq.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alabel, Suyan, Lun Pequeño. Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 103 km (64 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Lun Pequeño (c. 11 500 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Sapu Padidu (c. 9 800 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 26 km SSW of Sarangani, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.379° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	5.1832° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	39.852 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26 km SSW of Sarangani, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-06-12 14:38:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-06-12 15:03:39	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	70	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.458	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.77 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	48	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	us6000qjtq	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qjtq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qjtq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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