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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Lukatan in Philippines


Earthquake location 6.626S, 127.0071WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Lukatan in Philippines on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000qlg8. Unique identifier: us6000qlg8. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 127.0071 East, latitude 6.626 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 14:20:24 / 2:20 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/06/25 / 2025-06-05 14:20:24 / June 5, 2025 @ 2:20 pm.

The epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from San Ignacio (c. 6 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mati, Manay, San Ignacio (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 77 km ESE of Lukatan, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.0071° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.626° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77 km ESE of Lukatan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-06-05 14:20:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-22 19:39:18 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 298 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.485 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us6000qlg8 Id of event.
Event Code 6000qlg8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qlg8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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