Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near San Rafael in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from San Rafael in Philippines on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.8587 East, latitude 12.9374 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/09/25 / 2025-09-13 22:45:47 / September 13, 2025 @ 10:45 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000qw1v. Unique identifier: us7000qw1v. The temblor was detected at 22:45:47 / 10:45 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Liboro, Ragay, Sagpon (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 97 km (61 miles) from Legaspi (c. 179 500 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Naga (c. 174 900 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Iriga City (c. 94 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Polangui (c. 77 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Libon (c. 68 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from San Jose (c. 35 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Buhi (c. 30 100 pop).

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

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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: 20 km SSW of San Rafael, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	122.8587° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.9374° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20 km SSW of San Rafael, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-09-13 22:45:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-12 21:52:40	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	340	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	53	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	6.416	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	103	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	us7000qw1v	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qw1v	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qw1v,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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