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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Mabiton in Philippines

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A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Mabiton in Philippines. Exact location, longitude 122.97° East, latitude 12.7575° North, depth = 32.18 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 32.18 km (20 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pdvn. Unique identifier: us7000pdvn. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/02/25 / 2025-02-15 00:29:01 / February 15, 2025 @ 12:29 am. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:29:01 / 12:29 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Legaspi (c. 179 500 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Naga (c. 174 900 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Iriga City (c. 94 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Polangui (c. 77 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Libon (c. 68 800 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Masbate (c. 47 500 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from San Jose (c. 35 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Malilipot, Bonga, Magarao (min 5000 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 two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 32 km WSW of Mabiton, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	122.97° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.7575° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	32.18 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32 km WSW of Mabiton, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-02-15 00:29:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-15 00:57:21	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	385	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	61	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	6.208	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.74 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	74	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000pdvn	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pdvn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pdvn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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