Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Vintar in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Vintar in Philippines on Friday. The temblor was reported at 12:52:38 / 12:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 120.7619 East, latitude 18.2891 North, depth = 55.616 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 55.616 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000qufd. Event ids that are associated: us6000qufd. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/07/25 / 2025-07-11 12:52:38 / July 11, 2025 @ 12:52 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Piat, Aparri, Lasam. Earthquake epicenter was 20 km (13 miles) from Laoag (c. 102 100 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Batac City (c. 53 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Vigan (c. 48 500 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from San Nicolas (c. 34 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Aparri (c. 33 200 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Claveria (c. 10 600 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 13 km ENE of Vintar, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.7619° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.2891° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	55.616 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km ENE of Vintar, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-07-11 12:52:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-04 10:33:30	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	41	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.515	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	125	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	us6000qufd	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qufd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qufd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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