Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Santiago in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Santiago in Philippines on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.436 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:50:16 / 6:50 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/10/25 / 2025-10-14 18:50:16 / October 14, 2025 @ 6:50 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us6000rlg5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rlg5. Exact location of earthquake, 127.1256° East, 7.1993° North, depth 17.436 km.

Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Taytayan (c. 6 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from San Ignacio (c. 6 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kinablangan (c. 5 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taytayan, Kinablangan, Baganga (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	127.1256° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	7.1993° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17.436 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	61 km E 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	2025-10-14 18:50:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-04 21:42:43	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	298	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	30	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.54	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	131	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	us6000rlg5	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rlg5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rlg5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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