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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Santiago in Philippines

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Santiago in Philippines. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/10/25 / 2025-10-31 21:27:48 / October 31, 2025 @ 9:27 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.82 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 127.0652° East, latitude 7.0559° North, depth = 9.82 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rkup. Id of event: us6000rkup. The temblor was reported at 21:27:48 / 9:27 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 94 km (59 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Taytayan (c. 6 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from San Ignacio (c. 6 300 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Kinablangan (c. 5 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taytayan, Mati, Kinablangan (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days sixty and in the last 365 days one hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 60 km ESE of Santiago, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	127.0652° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	7.0559° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.82 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	60 km ESE of Santiago, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-31 21:27:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-31 21:39:06	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	385	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	33	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.475	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.05 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	69	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	us6000rkup	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rkup	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rkup,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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