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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Hagdan in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Hagdan in Philippines on Saturday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/11/25 / 2025-11-15 07:38:39 / November 15, 2025 @ 7:38 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 123.9147 East, latitude 11.2674 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 07:38:39 / 7:38 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us6000rnfs. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rnfs. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Babatngon, Alangalang, Victorias (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (50 miles) from Ormoc (c. 191 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Cadiz (c. 129 100 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Victorias (c. 86 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Sagay (c. 72 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Danao (c. 70 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Ualog (c. 60 500 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Liloan (c. 49 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-one 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. 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: 7 km SSE of Hagdan, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	123.9147° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	11.2674° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7 km SSE of Hagdan, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-11-15 07:38:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-15 08:03:37	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	369	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	45	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.483	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	111	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	us6000rnfs	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rnfs	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rnfs,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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