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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 21 km NW of Santa Monica, Philippines


Earthquake location 10.1746S, 125.9263WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Santa Monica in Philippines. Global time and date of event 05/11/25 / 2025-11-05 20:22:58 / November 5, 2025 @ 8:22 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 125.9263° East, 10.1746° North, depth 28.633 km. Unique identifier: us7000rdr6. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000rdr6. The temblor was reported at 20:22:58 / 8:22 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 28.633 km (18 miles).

The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Luna (c. 7 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Kitcharao (c. 7 200 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cantilan, Kitcharao, Alegria.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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 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: 21 km NW of Santa Monica, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.9263° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.1746° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.633 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21 km NW of Santa Monica, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-11-05 20:22:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-25 18:57:40 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 48 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.104 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us7000rdr6 Id of event.
Event Code 7000rdr6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000rdr6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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