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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Santiago in Philippines


Earthquake location 7.2695S, 126.7912WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Santiago in Philippines on Friday. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:53:53 / 3:53 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/10/25 / 2025-10-10 03:53:53 / October 10, 2025 @ 3:53 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 60.361 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rg08. Id of event: us6000rg08. Exact location, longitude 126.7912° East, latitude 7.2695° North, depth = 60.361 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Monkayo, Montevista, La Union (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Lupon (c. 27 200 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from San Mariano (c. 18 700 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Nabunturan (c. 16 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 24 km E of Santiago, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.7912° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.2695° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.361 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24 km E of Santiago, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-10-10 03:53:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-10 04:17:32 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 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 50 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.219 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us6000rg08 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rg08 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rg08, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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