Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Baculin in Philippines

Posted by admin on October 14, 2025 0 Comments

A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Baculin in Philippines. Event id: us6000rh4t. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rh4t. Exact location of earthquake, 127.308° East, 7.4818° North, depth 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/10/25 / 2025-10-14 17:23:55 / October 14, 2025 @ 5:23 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 17:23:55 / 5:23 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cateel, San Ignacio, Taytayan. Epicenter of the earthquake was 90 km (56 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Taytayan (c. 6 900 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Cateel (c. 6 600 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from San Ignacio (c. 6 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Kinablangan (c. 5 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

Did you feel it?

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. 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: 79 km E of Baculin, Philippines.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	127.308° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	7.4818° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	79 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 17:23:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-14 17:41:42	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	369	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	62	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.763	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	55	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	us6000rh4t	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rh4t	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rh4t,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Baculin in Philippines

Did you feel it?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information