Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Pondaguitan in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Pondaguitan in Philippines on Sunday. Global time and date of event 15/06/25 / 2025-06-15 12:31:28 / June 15, 2025 @ 12:31 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:31:28 / 12:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 87.411 km, 126.4654° East, 6.2537° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 87.411 km (54 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us6000qkfi. Event ids that are associated: us6000qkfi.

Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (51 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Lupon (c. 27 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Batobato (c. 9 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Talagutong (c. 8 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Sigaboy (c. 8 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Tibanbang (c. 7 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Talagutong, Lupon, Mati.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 33 km ESE of Pondaguitan, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.4654° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.2537° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	87.411 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33 km ESE of Pondaguitan, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-06-15 12:31:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-05 13:46:22	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	52	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.197	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	112	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	us6000qkfi	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qkfi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qkfi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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