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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Santiago in Philippines


Earthquake location 7.2686S, 126.7211WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Santiago in Philippines. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/10/25 / 2025-10-10 01:50:38 / October 10, 2025 @ 1:50 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 01:50:38 / 1:50 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 68.117 km (42 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rknr. Unique identifier: us6000rknr. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 68.117 km, 126.7211° East, 7.2686° North.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) from Tagum (c. 233 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Lupon (c. 27 200 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from New Corella (c. 20 600 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Corocotan, New Corella, Salvacion (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty-five, in the last 10 days eighty-five, in the past 30 days eighty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty 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. 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: 16 km E of Santiago, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.7211° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.2686° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 68.117 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16 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 2025-10-10 01:50:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-05 04:51:36 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 432 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.15 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us6000rknr Id of event.
Event Code 6000rknr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rknr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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