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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Santiago in Philippines

Posted by admin on October 15, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 7.1768S, 127.1802WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Santiago in Philippines. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:44:54 / 7:44 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rh8q. Id of event: us6000rh8q. Global time and date of event 15/10/25 / 2025-10-15 07:44:54 / October 15, 2025 @ 7:44 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 127.1802° East, latitude 7.1768° North, depth = 10 km.

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taytayan, Kinablangan, Baganga (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Taytayan (c. 6 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Ignacio (c. 6 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Kinablangan (c. 5 400 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fourty-nine, in the past 30 days fifty-one and in the last 365 days ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. 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: 68 km E of Santiago, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.1802° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.1768° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68 km E of Santiago, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-10-15 07:44:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-15 08:11:05 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 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.592 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us6000rh8q Id of event.
Event Code 6000rh8q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rh8q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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