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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Nangan in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Nangan in Philippines. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/11/25 / 2025-11-16 06:35:40 / November 16, 2025 @ 6:35 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.1312 East, latitude 6.4806 North, depth = 86.085 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 86.085 km (53 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us6000rnk2. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rnk2. The temblor was detected at 06:35:40 / 6:35 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Maluñgun (c. 52 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Samal (c. 43 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Lupon (c. 27 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Maluñgun, Bato, Baracatan (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 five and in the last 365 days one hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 1 km NE of Nangan, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.1312° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.4806° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	86.085 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1 km NE of Nangan, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-11-16 06:35:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-16 07:07:23	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	37	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.802	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.49 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	112	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	us6000rnk2	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rnk2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rnk2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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