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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Sinisian in Philippines

Posted by admin on August 19, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.9416S, 120.8404WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Sinisian in Philippines. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:43:15 / 4:43 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/08/25 / 2025-08-19 16:43:15 / August 19, 2025 @ 4:43 pm. Exact location of event, depth 72.418 km, 120.8404° East, 13.9416° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000r22d. Unique identifier: us6000r22d. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 72.418 km (45 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Orani, Guyong, Malolos (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from Manila (c. 10 444 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Quezon City (c. 2 761 700 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Pasig City (c. 617 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Antipolo (c. 549 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Dasmariñas (c. 441 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 2 km N of Sinisian, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.8404° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.9416° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 72.418 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km N of Sinisian, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-08-19 16:43:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-19 17:33:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 357 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 115 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 8.831 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us6000r22d Id of event.
Event Code 6000r22d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r22d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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