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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Santa Maria in Philippines

Posted by admin on July 23, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.0986S, 126.2083WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Santa Maria in Philippines. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qub5. Id of event: us6000qub5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:02:19 / 4:02 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 23/07/25 / 2025-07-23 04:02:19 / July 23, 2025 @ 4:02 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.2083 East, latitude 8.0986 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Tagum (c. 233 300 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from New Corella (c. 20 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Carmen, Halapitan, Pandasan.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km NE of Santa Maria, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.2083° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.0986° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km NE of Santa Maria, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-07-23 04:02:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-23 22:32:13 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 340 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 56 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.198 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us6000qub5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000qub5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qub5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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