Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag strikes near Tambongon in Philippines

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Tambongon in Philippines. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rgrd. Unique identifier: us6000rgrd. The temblor was detected at 17:05:59 / 5:05 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 12/10/25 / 2025-10-12 17:05:59 / October 12, 2025 @ 5:05 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 123.9375 East, latitude 10.9457 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 Maao, Sagang, San Isidro. Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Cebu City (c. 798 600 pop), 112 km (70 miles) from Bacolod City (c. 454 900 pop), 110 km (69 miles) from Mansilingan (c. 454 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Lapu-Lapu City (c. 350 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Mandaue City (c. 331 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Ormoc (c. 191 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Toledo (c. 156 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Talisay (c. 133 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days twenty 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. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 2 km SSE of Tambongon, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	123.9375° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	10.9457° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2 km SSE of Tambongon, 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 17:05:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-12 17:23:32	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	7	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.8	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	503	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	91	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.179	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.8 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	35	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000rgrd	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rgrd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rgrd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.7 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

123.9375° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

10.9457° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

2 km SSE of Tambongon, 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 17:05:59

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2025-10-12 17:23:32

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

4.8

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

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

503

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.

Horizontal Distance

4.179

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.8 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

mww

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us6000rgrd

Id of event.

Event Code

6000rgrd

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us6000rgrd,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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