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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Nuyo in Philippines


Earthquake location 7.3991S, 124.4644WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Nuyo in Philippines. Event id: us6000pmiv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pmiv. Exact location of event, depth 396.488 km, 124.4644° East, 7.3991° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 396.488 km (246 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/01/25 / 2025-01-27 06:40:43 / January 27, 2025 @ 6:40 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 06:40:43 / 6:40 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Maranding, Iligan City, Kapatagan. Event epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Budta (c. 1 273 700 pop), 27 km (16 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Iligan City (c. 312 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Mantampay (c. 265 000 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Cotabato (c. 179 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Marawi City (c. 143 600 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Valencia (c. 83 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 6 km ESE of Nuyo, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.4644° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.3991° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 396.488 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km ESE of Nuyo, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-27 06:40:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-27 07:06:38 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 312 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 83 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.153 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 us6000pmiv Id of event.
Event Code 6000pmiv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pmiv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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