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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Buenavista in Philippines

Posted by admin on October 24, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 10.7662S, 123.628WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Buenavista in Philippines. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:06:39 / 2:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/09/25 / 2025-09-30 14:06:39 / September 30, 2025 @ 2:06 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 123.628 East, latitude 10.7662 North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000riqc. Id of event: us6000riqc.

Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bogo, Hinigaran, Tabango (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 58 km (36 miles) from Cebu City (c. 798 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Bacolod City (c. 454 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Mansilingan (c. 454 200 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Lapu-Lapu City (c. 350 500 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Mandaue City (c. 331 300 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Toledo (c. 156 900 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Bago City (c. 150 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km ESE of Buenavista, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.628° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.7662° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km ESE of Buenavista, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-09-30 14:06:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-24 19:06:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 356 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 10 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us6000riqc Id of event.
Event Code 6000riqc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000riqc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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