Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Sarangani in Philippines

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/06/25 / 2025-06-12 18:55:07 / June 12, 2025 @ 6:55 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 34.792 km (22 miles). Event id: us6000qjwn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qjwn. The temblor was picked up at 18:55:07 / 6:55 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 125.654° East, latitude 5.0635° North, depth = 34.792 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Caburan, Baliton, Pangyan (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Baliton (c. 5 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Pangyan (c. 5 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 43 km SSE of Sarangani, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.654° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	5.0635° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	34.792 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43 km SSE 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 18:55:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-06-12 19:49:39	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	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	34	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.372	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	61	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	us6000qjwn	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qjwn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qjwn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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