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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Suklayin in Philippines

Posted by admin on November 20, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.6666S, 122.1622WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Suklayin in Philippines. Event id: us6000rpfx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rpfx. The temblor was picked up at 20:37:56 / 8:37 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.007 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 122.1622° East, latitude 15.6666° North, depth = 35.007 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/11/25 / 2025-11-20 20:37:56 / November 20, 2025 @ 8:37 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Masaya Sur, Patnanungan, Ligaya. Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Maddela (c. 9 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Dingalan (c. 7 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Gabaldon (c. 7 300 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Patnanungan (c. 6 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Maria Aurora (c. 6 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Suklayin (c. 5 700 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Nagtipunan (c. 5 700 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 five 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 66 km E of Suklayin, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.1622° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.6666° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.007 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66 km E of Suklayin, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-11-20 20:37:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-20 20:59:14 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 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 66 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 7.186 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us6000rpfx Id of event.
Event Code 6000rpfx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rpfx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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