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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Maravilla in Philippines


Earthquake location 10.8943S, 123.9099WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Maravilla in Philippines. Unique identifier: us6000reru. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000reru. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 09:50:17 / 9:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 123.9099 East, latitude 10.8943 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 04/10/25 / 2025-10-04 09:50:17 / October 4, 2025 @ 9:50 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Minuyan, Alicante, Ocaña (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from Cebu City (c. 798 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Lapu-Lapu City (c. 350 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Mandaue City (c. 331 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Ormoc (c. 191 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Toledo (c. 156 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Talisay (c. 133 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Cadiz (c. 129 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 2 km ESE of Maravilla, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.9099° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.8943° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km ESE of Maravilla, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-10-04 09:50:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-04 10:07:32 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 326 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 6.316 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 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 us6000reru Id of event.
Event Code 6000reru An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000reru, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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