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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 12 km N of Davila, Philippines

Posted by admin on October 17, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.5873S, 120.5547WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Davila in Philippines. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/10/25 / 2025-10-17 08:31:50 / October 17, 2025 @ 8:31 am. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:31:50 / 8:31 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rhrb. Id of event: us6000rhrb. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.352 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 25.352 km, 120.5547° East, 18.5873° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Laoag (c. 102 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Batac City (c. 53 500 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from San Nicolas (c. 34 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Claveria (c. 10 600 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Bacarra (c. 9 600 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Cabaritan East (c. 9 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Cabugao (c. 6 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cabaritan East, Cabugao, Batac City. Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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

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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: 12 km N of Davila, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.5547° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5873° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.352 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km N of Davila, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-10-17 08:31:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-17 08:54:42 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 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.237 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us6000rhrb Id of event.
Event Code 6000rhrb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rhrb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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