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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Leyte in Philippines

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Earthquake location 11.3584S, 124.4907WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Leyte in Philippines. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:07:24 / 9:07 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 21/10/25 / 2025-10-21 09:07:24 / October 21, 2025 @ 9:07 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 124.4907° East, 11.3584° North. Event id: us6000rmsu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rmsu. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Event epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Ormoc (c. 191 200 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Catbalogan (c. 68 100 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Calbayog City (c. 67 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Bogo (c. 23 600 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Bantayan (c. 19 000 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Baybay (c. 17 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cataingan, Catmon, Abuyog. Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 1 km SE of Leyte, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.4907° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.3584° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1 km SE of Leyte, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-10-21 09:07:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-12 07:08:08 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 312 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 6.655 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us6000rmsu Id of event.
Event Code 6000rmsu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rmsu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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