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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near San Nicolas in Philippines

Posted by admin on December 18, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.8916S, 119.8586WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 24 kilometers (15 miles) from San Nicolas in Philippines on Thursday. Unique identifier: us6000rvtb. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rvtb. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 119.8586 East, latitude 14.8916 North, depth = 46.332 km. Global time and date of event 18/12/25 / 2025-12-18 18:07:07 / December 18, 2025 @ 6:07 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 18:07:07 / 6:07 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 46.332 km (29 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Luis, San Jose, San Miguel (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 83 km (52 miles) from Angeles City (c. 299 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Santol (c. 299 000 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from San Fernando (c. 251 200 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Olongapo (c. 221 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Mabalacat City (c. 188 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Bulaon (c. 131 800 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Hagonoy (c. 123 500 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 24 km WSW of San Nicolas, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 119.8586° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.8916° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.332 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24 km WSW of San Nicolas, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-12-18 18:07:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-18 21:38:47 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 354 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 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 8.396 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us6000rvtb Id of event.
Event Code 6000rvtb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rvtb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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