Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 37 km SSE of Tamisan, Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Tamisan in Philippines. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.4848 East, latitude 6.5568 North, depth = 77.178 km. Event id: us6000rcc3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rcc3. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:30:01 / 1:30 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 77.178 km (48 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/08/25 / 2025-08-29 13:30:01 / August 29, 2025 @ 1:30 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Lupon (c. 27 200 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Batobato (c. 9 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Sigaboy (c. 8 000 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Tibanbang (c. 7 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Magnaga, Manay, Lupon.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.4848° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.5568° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	77.178 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	37 km SSE of Tamisan, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-08-29 13:30:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-28 09:45:50	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	33	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.034	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	116	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	us6000rcc3	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rcc3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rcc3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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