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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Jovellar in Philippines

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Jovellar in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 66.371 km (41 miles). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:48:54 / 5:48 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 10/10/25 / 2025-10-10 05:48:54 / October 10, 2025 @ 5:48 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 126.9228° East, latitude 6.8213° North, depth = 66.371 km. Id of earthquake: us6000rg16. Event ids that are associated: us6000rg16.

Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Lupon (c. 27 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Batobato (c. 9 700 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Sigaboy (c. 8 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Tibanbang (c. 7 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kinablangan, Lupon, Sigaboy.

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 58 km ESE of Jovellar, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.9228° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.8213° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	66.371 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	58 km ESE of Jovellar, 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 05:48:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-10 06:23:01	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	55	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.357	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.66 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	121	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	us6000rg16	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rg16	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rg16,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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