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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near San Ignacio in Philippines


Earthquake location 7.088S, 126.5977WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from San Ignacio in Philippines on Friday. The temblor was picked up at 02:34:02 / 2:34 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 91.061 km (57 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000rkm2. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rkm2. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.5977 East, latitude 7.088 North, depth = 91.061 km. Global time and date of event 10/10/25 / 2025-10-10 02:34:02 / October 10, 2025 @ 2:34 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Samal, Corocotan, Tagum. Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Tagum (c. 233 300 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Samal (c. 43 500 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Lupon (c. 27 200 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from San Mariano (c. 18 700 pop).

Each 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 one hundred and ten, in the last 10 days one hundred and ten, in the past 30 days one hundred and twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 12 km ESE of San Ignacio, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.5977° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.088° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 91.061 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km ESE of San Ignacio, 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 02:34:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-07 01:57:43 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 326 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 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.011 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us6000rkm2 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rkm2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rkm2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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