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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Baculin in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Baculin in Philippines. Id of earthquake: us6000rh63. Event ids that are associated: us6000rh63. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:26:13 / 7:26 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/10/25 / 2025-10-14 19:26:13 / October 14, 2025 @ 7:26 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 127.2908° East, latitude 7.5247° North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Ignacio, Cateel, Taytayan. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Taytayan (c. 6 900 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Cateel (c. 6 600 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from San Ignacio (c. 6 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kinablangan (c. 5 400 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days fourty-eight, in the past 30 days fourty-nine and in the last 365 days ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 78 km E of Baculin, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	127.2908° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	7.5247° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	78 km E of Baculin, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-14 19:26:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-14 19:48:40	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	355	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	78	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.757	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	62	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	us6000rh63	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rh63	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rh63,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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