Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Kudat in Malaysia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Kudat in Malaysia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:52:06 / 2:52 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 642.938 km (400 miles). Exact location of event, depth 642.938 km, 116.8435° East, 6.589° North. Event id: us6000qu29. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qu29. Global time and date of event 22/07/25 / 2025-07-22 02:52:06 / July 22, 2025 @ 2:52 am UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, Malaysia (c. 28 275 000 pop). Event epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Kudat (c. 32 400 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Ranau (c. 19 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Kota Belud (c. 12 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ranau, Kota Belud, Kudat.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 33 km S of Kudat, Malaysia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	116.8435° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.589° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	642.938 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33 km S of Kudat, Malaysia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-07-22 02:52:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-25 02:37:24	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	60	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	5.266	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	72	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	us6000qu29	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qu29	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qu29,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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