Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Cateel in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Cateel in Philippines on Wednesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 93.398 km (58 miles). The temblor was picked up at 18:12:01 / 6:12 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000rg6a. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rg6a. Exact location of event, longitude 126.5145 East, latitude 7.805 North, depth = 93.398 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/09/25 / 2025-09-17 18:12:01 / September 17, 2025 @ 6:12 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Corocotan, Pandasan, Barobo. The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Tagum (c. 233 300 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from New Corella (c. 20 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-five, in the last 10 days fourty-five, in the past 30 days fourty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 6 km ENE of Cateel, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.5145° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	7.805° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	93.398 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km ENE of Cateel, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-09-17 18:12:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-14 21:14:42	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	298	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	1.181	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	134	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	us6000rg6a	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rg6a	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rg6a,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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