Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Caba in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Caba in Philippines. Exact location of earthquake, 120.337° East, 16.419° North, depth 93.262 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/05/25 / 2025-05-31 00:52:22 / May 31, 2025 @ 12:52 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 93.262 km (58 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us6000qkm8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qkm8. The temblor was detected at 00:52:22 / 12:52 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Carranglan, Baggabag B, Lucapon. Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Baguio (c. 272 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Urdaneta (c. 101 000 pop), 39 km (25 miles) from Mangaldan (c. 88 800 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from San Fernando (c. 83 000 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Manaoag (c. 59 100 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Lingayen (c. 56 600 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days 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. 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: 1 km SSW of Caba, Philippines.

Baggabag B Baguio Caba Carranglan Lingayen Lucapon Manaoag Mangaldan Philippines San Fernando Urdaneta

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.337° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	16.419° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	93.262 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1 km SSW of Caba, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-31 00:52:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-06-24 03:25:44	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	271	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	6.404	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	191	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	us6000qkm8	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qkm8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qkm8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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