Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Baculin in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Baculin in Philippines. Exact location of event, longitude 126.9389 East, latitude 7.5157 North, depth = 20.631 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.631 km (13 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rufw. Id of event: us6000rufw. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/11/25 / 2025-11-25 06:39:55 / November 25, 2025 @ 6:39 am UTC/GMT. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:39:55 / 6:39 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lingig, San Ignacio, Cateel (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Taytayan (c. 6 900 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Cateel (c. 6 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Lingig (c. 6 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Ignacio (c. 6 300 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-seven 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.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 39 km E of Baculin, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.9389° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	7.5157° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.631 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	39 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	2025-11-25 06:39:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-16 13:09:22	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	298	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	33	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.42	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.97 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	65	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	us6000rufw	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rufw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rufw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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