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

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Calape in Philippines on Tuesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/09/25 / 2025-09-30 14:14:30 / September 30, 2025 @ 2:14 pm. Event id: us6000ripw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ripw. The temblor was detected at 14:14:30 / 2:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 124.0974 East, latitude 11.1771 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly 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).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Toledo, Jaclupan, Ualog. Epicenter of the earthquake was 98 km (61 miles) from Cebu City (c. 798 600 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Lapu-Lapu City (c. 350 500 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Mandaue City (c. 331 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Ormoc (c. 191 200 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Toledo (c. 156 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Cadiz (c. 129 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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

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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: 6 km E of Calape, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	124.0974° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	11.1771° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km E of Calape, 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 14:14:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-24 21:18:27	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	101	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	6.547	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.42 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	51	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	us6000ripw	Id of event.
Event Code	6000ripw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ripw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.9 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

124.0974° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

11.1771° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

6 km E of Calape, 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 14:14:30

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2025-10-24 21:18:27

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

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

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

101

The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.

Horizontal Distance

6.547

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.42 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us6000ripw

Id of event.

Event Code

6000ripw

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us6000ripw,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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