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Moderate earthquake: M5.4 quake has struck near Aras-asan in Philippines

Posted by admin on October 18, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.8617S, 126.4677WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Aras-asan in Philippines. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/10/25 / 2025-10-18 12:31:32 / October 18, 2025 @ 12:31 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ri11. Id of event: us6000ri11. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:31:32 / 12:31 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 63.159 km (39 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 126.4677 East, latitude 8.8617 North, depth = 63.159 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dapa, Tubay, Libertad. The epicenter was 102 km (63 miles) from Butuan (c. 309 700 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Libertad (c. 250 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 17 km E of Aras-asan, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.4677° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.8617° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63.159 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17 km E of Aras-asan, 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 12:31:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-18 12:49:39 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 0 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 449 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 75 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.986 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 27 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 us6000ri11 Id of event.
Event Code 6000ri11 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ri11, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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