Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Sarangani in Philippines

A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines. The temblor was reported at 16:38:45 / 4:38 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 05/11/25 / 2025-11-05 16:38:45 / November 5, 2025 @ 4:38 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000rlpe. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rlpe. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 125.1755° East, 4.9898° North.

Event epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Maasin (c. 5 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Baliton (c. 5 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Pangyan (c. 5 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Maasin, Glan, Baliton (min 5000 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, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 55 km SW of Sarangani, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.1755° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	4.9898° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	55 km SW of Sarangani, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-11-05 16:38:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-07 05:09:14	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	48	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.396	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	90	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	us6000rlpe	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rlpe	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rlpe,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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