Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Pondaguitan in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Pondaguitan in Philippines. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 150.653 km (94 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 08/07/25 / 2025-07-08 16:10:07 / July 8, 2025 @ 4:10 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 126.146° East, 6.0067° North, depth 150.653 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000qdhq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qdhq. The temblor was detected at 16:10:07 / 4:10 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Malapatan, Basiawan, Batobato (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Batobato (c. 9 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Talagutong (c. 8 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Sigaboy (c. 8 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days eighty-eight 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: 39 km S of Pondaguitan, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.146° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.0067° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	150.653 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	39 km S 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	2025-07-08 16:10:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-01 15:55:34	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	61	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	1.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	45	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	us7000qdhq	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qdhq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qdhq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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