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

Posted by admin on August 13, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 20.6086S, 121.1892WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Basco in Philippines. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/07/25 / 2025-07-22 14:30:27 / July 22, 2025 @ 2:30 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 34.688 km (22 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 121.1892° East, 20.6086° North, depth 34.688 km. The temblor was reported at 14:30:27 / 2:30 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000qyj1. Event ids that are associated: us6000qyj1.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Basco. Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Basco (c. 7 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 83 km WNW of Basco, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.1892° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.6086° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.688 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83 km WNW of Basco, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-07-22 14:30:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-13 22:07:04 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.729 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 112 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 us6000qyj1 Id of event.
Event Code 6000qyj1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qyj1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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