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

Posted by admin on November 27, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.4662S, 120.939WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Pagudpud in Philippines. Exact location of event, longitude 120.939 East, latitude 18.4662 North, depth = 54.68 km. Id of earthquake: us7000re21. Event ids that are associated: us7000re21. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/11/25 / 2025-11-27 03:10:48 / November 27, 2025 @ 3:10 am. 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 54.68 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 03:10:48 / 3:10 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Piat, Cabugao, Magapit, Aguiguican. Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Laoag (c. 102 100 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Batac City (c. 53 500 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from San Nicolas (c. 34 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Aparri (c. 33 200 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Magapit, Aguiguican (c. 13 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Magapit (c. 11 200 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Claveria (c. 10 600 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 19 km ESE of Pagudpud, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.939° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4662° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19 km ESE of Pagudpud, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-11-27 03:10:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-27 03:31:21 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 63 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.332 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000re21 Id of event.
Event Code 7000re21 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000re21, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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