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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Santiago in Philippines


Earthquake location 7.2661S, 126.9284WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Santiago in Philippines. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/10/25 / 2025-10-14 02:20:01 / October 14, 2025 @ 2:20 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 77.954 km (48 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rgz9. Unique identifier: us6000rgz9. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 126.9284 East, latitude 7.2661 North, depth = 77.954 km. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:20:01 / 2:20 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Taytayan (c. 6 900 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Cateel (c. 6 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from San Ignacio (c. 6 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Kinablangan (c. 5 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mati, Cateel, Taytayan.

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 twenty-six, in the last 10 days ninety-eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and one and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 39 km E of Santiago, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.9284° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.2661° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 77.954 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39 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 02:20:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-06 05:04:49 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 340 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 76 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.353 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us6000rgz9 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rgz9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rgz9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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