Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Ginabuyan in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Ginabuyan in Philippines. The temblor was reported at 19:09:43 / 7:09 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rj7b. Unique identifier: us6000rj7b. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 04/10/25 / 2025-10-04 19:09:43 / October 4, 2025 @ 7:09 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 124.411° East, 11.2197° North, depth 10 km.

The epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Ormoc (c. 191 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Danao (c. 70 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Catbalogan (c. 68 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Bogo (c. 23 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Cogan (c. 21 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Placer, Pagsanghan, Nangka. Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 2 km SSE of Ginabuyan, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	124.411° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	11.2197° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2 km SSE of Ginabuyan, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-04 19:09:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-31 05:24:36	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	284	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	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.282	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	134	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	us6000rj7b	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rj7b	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rj7b,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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