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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Gamut in Philippines

Posted by admin on August 26, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.633S, 126.3007WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Gamut in Philippines on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qr66. Id of event: us7000qr66. The temblor was picked up at 19:45:47 / 7:45 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/08/25 / 2025-08-26 19:45:47 / August 26, 2025 @ 7:45 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 79.718 km (50 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 126.3007 East, latitude 8.633 North, depth = 79.718 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Butuan (c. 309 700 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Libertad (c. 250 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Magallanes, Cateel, Monkayo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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 sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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: 12 km NNE of Gamut, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.3007° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.633° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 79.718 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km NNE of Gamut, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-08-26 19:45:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-26 20:20:36 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 340 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 110 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.71 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us7000qr66 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qr66 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qr66, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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