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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag strikes near Sarrat in Philippines

Posted by admin on July 15, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.1361S, 120.6545WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Sarrat in Philippines. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 48.687 km (30 miles). Global time and date of event 15/07/25 / 2025-07-15 02:38:19 / July 15, 2025 @ 2:38 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 02:38:19 / 2:38 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000qcqe. Unique identifier: us7000qcqe. Exact location of event, longitude 120.6545 East, latitude 18.1361 North, depth = 48.687 km.

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Magapit, Aguiguican, Magapit, Aparri (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 9 km (6 miles) from Laoag (c. 102 100 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Batac City (c. 53 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Vigan (c. 48 500 pop), 7 km (5 miles) from San Nicolas (c. 34 200 pop), 107 km (66 miles) from Aparri (c. 33 200 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Magapit, Aguiguican (c. 13 700 pop), 107 km (66 miles) from Candon (c. 11 200 pop), 107 km (67 miles) from Magapit (c. 11 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 2 km SSE of Sarrat, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.6545° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1361° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.687 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km SSE of Sarrat, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-07-15 02:38:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-15 02:48:21 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 465 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 59 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.675 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000qcqe Id of event.
Event Code 7000qcqe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qcqe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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