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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 4 km N of Caibiran, Philippines


Earthquake location 11.6101S, 124.5859WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Caibiran in Philippines. Id of earthquake: us6000pk85. Event ids that are associated: us6000pk85. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/01/25 / 2025-01-15 18:03:22 / January 15, 2025 @ 6:03 pm. The temblor was picked up at 18:03:22 / 6:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 124.5859 East, latitude 11.6101 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (42 miles) from Ormoc (c. 191 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Catbalogan (c. 68 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Calbayog City (c. 67 900 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Catarman (c. 47 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Bogo (c. 23 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Palo (c. 17 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Allen, Balangiga, Can-Avid (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 4 km N of Caibiran, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.5859° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.6101° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4 km N of Caibiran, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-15 18:03:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-15 18:35:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.9 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 386 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 66 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.617 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us6000pk85 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pk85 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pk85, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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