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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Bacolod in Philippines

Posted by admin on August 28, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.1689S, 126.7853WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Bacolod in Philippines. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/08/25 / 2025-08-02 07:31:40 / August 2, 2025 @ 7:31 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 126.7853° East, latitude 9.1689° North, depth = 9.868 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.868 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 07:31:40 / 7:31 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000qqsv. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qqsv.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lianga, Cantilan, Tandag (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Lianga (c. 13 600 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Tago (c. 6 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Aras-asan (c. 5 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 60 km ENE of Bacolod, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.7853° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.1689° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.868 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60 km ENE of Bacolod, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-08-02 07:31:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-28 07:08:51 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.403 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us7000qqsv Id of event.
Event Code 7000qqsv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qqsv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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