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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Sarangani in Philippines

Posted by admin on September 20, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 3.846S, 126.804WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 227 km SE of Sarangani, Philippines (141 miles). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:39:48 / 2:39 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 41.012 km (25 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000qxi5. Unique identifier: us7000qxi5. Global time and date of event 20/09/25 / 2025-09-20 02:39:48 / September 20, 2025 @ 2:39 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 126.804 East, latitude 3.846 North, depth = 41.012 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 227 km SE of Sarangani, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.804° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.846° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.012 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 227 km SE of Sarangani, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-09-20 02:39:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-20 03:13:12 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 354 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.588 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us7000qxi5 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qxi5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qxi5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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