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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Santiago in Philippines


Earthquake location 7.2708S, 127.4028WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Santiago in Philippines on Sunday. Id of earthquake: us6000rgrg. Event ids that are associated: us6000rgrg. Exact location of event, longitude 127.4028 East, latitude 7.2708 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:37:53 / 5:37 pm (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: 12/10/25 / 2025-10-12 17:37:53 / October 12, 2025 @ 5:37 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Manay. Earthquake epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 91 km E of Santiago, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.4028° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.2708° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91 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 2025-10-12 17:37:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-12 18:12:56 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 312 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 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.821 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us6000rgrg Id of event.
Event Code 6000rgrg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rgrg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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