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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 1 km S of Maya, Philippines


Earthquake location 11.2615S, 124.0555WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Maya in Philippines on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, 124.0555° East, 11.2615° North, depth 10 km. Id of earthquake: us6000ripm. Event ids that are associated: us6000ripm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 16:31:44 / 4:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/09/25 / 2025-09-30 16:31:44 / September 30, 2025 @ 4:31 pm.

Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Buanoy, Liloan, Andres Bonifacio. Event epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Ormoc (c. 191 200 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Cadiz (c. 129 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Sagay (c. 72 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Danao (c. 70 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Liloan (c. 49 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Escalante (c. 39 200 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Paraiso (c. 30 500 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-eight, in the last 10 days thirty-eight, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 1 km S of Maya, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.0555° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.2615° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1 km S of Maya, 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 16:31:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-29 16:06:48 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 312 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 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 6.638 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us6000ripm Id of event.
Event Code 6000ripm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ripm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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