Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Masbate in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Masbate in Philippines. Unique identifier: us6000qvm1. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000qvm1. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/07/25 / 2025-07-28 06:35:47 / July 28, 2025 @ 6:35 am. The temblor was picked up at 06:35:47 / 6:35 am (local time epicenter). 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 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 123.6545 East, latitude 12.4243 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Legaspi (c. 179 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Sorsogon (c. 82 700 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Masbate (c. 47 500 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Bulan (c. 28 500 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Irosin (c. 20 700 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Tagas (c. 15 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pantao, Libog, Ligao.

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 6 km NNE of Masbate, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	123.6545° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.4243° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km NNE of Masbate, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-07-28 06:35:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-13 08:58:48	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	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	7.852	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	123	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	us6000qvm1	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qvm1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qvm1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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