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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Santiago in Philippines


Earthquake location 7.0649S, 127.2314WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Santiago in Philippines on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:49:38 / 12:49 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/10/25 / 2025-10-10 12:49:38 / October 10, 2025 @ 12:49 pm. Event id: us6000rg4m. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rg4m. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 127.2314° East, 7.0649° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kinablangan, Baganga, San Ignacio. Event epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from San Ignacio (c. 6 300 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Kinablangan (c. 5 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-four, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days sixty-seven 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 76 km ESE of Santiago, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.2314° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.0649° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76 km ESE 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 12:49:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-10 13:07:24 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 58 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.64 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 us6000rg4m Id of event.
Event Code 6000rg4m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rg4m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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