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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Borbon in Philippines

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A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Borbon in Philippines on Wednesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/10/25 / 2025-10-01 14:46:58 / October 1, 2025 @ 2:46 pm. Unique identifier: us6000re08. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000re08. Exact location of earthquake, 124.1712° East, 10.8915° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was reported at 14:46:58 / 2:46 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Cebu City (c. 798 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Lapu-Lapu City (c. 350 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Mandaue City (c. 331 300 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Ormoc (c. 191 200 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Toledo (c. 156 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Talisay (c. 133 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guadalupe, Sogod, Carcar (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 16 km ENE of Borbon, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	124.1712° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	10.8915° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16 km ENE of Borbon, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-01 14:46:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-01 15:05:18	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	400	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	89	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.044	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.08 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	32	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000re08	Id of event.
Event Code	6000re08	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000re08,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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