Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Aras-asan in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Aras-asan in Philippines. Exact location, longitude 126.3296° East, latitude 8.8826° North, depth = 85.642 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 85.642 km (53 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:28:33 / 8:28 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000qbl2. Event ids that are associated: us7000qbl2. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/06/25 / 2025-06-28 08:28:33 / June 28, 2025 @ 8:28 am.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Libertad, Socorro, Cabadbaran (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Butuan (c. 309 700 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Libertad (c. 250 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 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 two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.3296° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	8.8826° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	85.642 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2 km ESE of Aras-asan, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-06-28 08:28:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-16 06:30:14	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	284	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	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.949	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.57 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	120	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	us7000qbl2	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qbl2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qbl2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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