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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Tambong in Philippines

Posted by admin on November 16, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.9403S, 121.5306WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Tambong in Philippines. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/10/25 / 2025-10-25 06:34:25 / October 25, 2025 @ 6:34 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.5306 East, latitude 12.9403 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rnan. Id of event: us6000rnan. The temblor was picked up at 06:34:25 / 6:34 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from San Jose (c. 118 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Calapan (c. 66 000 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Pinamalayan (c. 43 500 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Sablayan (c. 38 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Mansalay (c. 23 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Romblon (c. 15 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Roxas (c. 14 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Semirara, Calubcub Dos, Romblon (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days ten 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. 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: 5 km ESE of Tambong, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.5306° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.9403° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km ESE of Tambong, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-10-25 06:34:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-16 05:30:08 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 354 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 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 10.398 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us6000rnan Id of event.
Event Code 6000rnan An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rnan, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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