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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Bantiqui in Philippines

Posted by admin on October 2, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 10.9525S, 124.2953WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Bantiqui in Philippines. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 02/10/25 / 2025-10-02 21:39:55 / October 2, 2025 @ 9:39 pm UTC/GMT. 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: us6000red2. Id of event: us6000red2. Exact location of event, longitude 124.2953 East, latitude 10.9525 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 21:39:55 / 9:39 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Maasin, San Fernando, Pinamungahan. Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Cebu City (c. 798 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Lapu-Lapu City (c. 350 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Mandaue City (c. 331 300 pop), 35 km (21 miles) from Ormoc (c. 191 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Toledo (c. 156 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Talisay (c. 133 100 pop).

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

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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: 13 km WNW of Bantiqui, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.2953° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.9525° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13 km WNW of Bantiqui, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-10-02 21:39:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-02 22:00:02 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 432 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 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.061 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us6000red2 Id of event.
Event Code 6000red2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000red2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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