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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Davila in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Davila in Philippines. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.612 km (18 miles). Exact location of event, depth 28.612 km, 120.5532° East, 18.6181° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000ri0p. Unique identifier: us6000ri0p. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/10/25 / 2025-10-18 10:50:20 / October 18, 2025 @ 10:50 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 10:50:20 / 10:50 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cabugao, Batac City, Dingras (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Laoag (c. 102 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Batac City (c. 53 500 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from San Nicolas (c. 34 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Claveria (c. 10 600 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Bacarra (c. 9 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Cabugao (c. 6 900 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Dingras (c. 6 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 16 km N of Davila, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.5532° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.6181° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	28.612 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16 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	2025-10-18 10:50:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-18 11:33:39	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	340	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	51	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.207	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.82 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	118	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	us6000ri0p	Id of event.
Event Code	6000ri0p	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ri0p,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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