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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Baco in Philippines


Earthquake location 13.3878S, 121.0948WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Baco in Philippines. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 121.0948° East, latitude 13.3878° North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us6000rtd3. Event ids that are associated: us6000rtd3. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/12/25 / 2025-12-08 11:59:13 / December 8, 2025 @ 11:59 am. The temblor was detected at 11:59:13 / 11:59 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Calamba (c. 316 600 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Batangas (c. 237 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Lucena (c. 228 800 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Lipa City (c. 212 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from San Pablo (c. 207 600 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Silang (c. 119 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Los Baños (c. 95 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Maguyam, Victoria, Lucban.

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 twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 3 km N of Baco, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.0948° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.3878° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3 km N of Baco, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-12-08 11:59:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-08 12:17:24 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 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 20.781 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 us6000rtd3 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rtd3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rtd3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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