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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Baculin in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Baculin in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000ret3. Event ids that are associated: us7000ret3. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:41:44 / 1:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/12/25 / 2025-12-01 01:41:44 / December 1, 2025 @ 1:41 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 32.106 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 127.1211 East, latitude 7.3542 North, depth = 32.106 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Taytayan (c. 6 900 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Cateel (c. 6 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from San Ignacio (c. 6 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Kinablangan (c. 5 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cateel, Taytayan, San Ignacio (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 four and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 60 km E of Baculin, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	127.1211° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	7.3542° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	32.106 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	60 km E of Baculin, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-12-01 01:41:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-01 01:56:36	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	326	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	1.556	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	102	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	us7000ret3	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ret3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ret3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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