Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Dimataling in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Dimataling in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 123.3885 East, latitude 7.5162 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us7000pbud. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pbud. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:37:29 / 4:37 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/01/25 / 2025-01-29 04:37:29 / January 29, 2025 @ 4:37 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bugasan, Maigo, Bayanga (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Pagadian (c. 186 900 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Muricay (c. 132 100 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Ozamiz City (c. 93 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Lala (c. 61 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Tangub (c. 29 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Molave (c. 21 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Ipil (c. 19 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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 respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km SE of Dimataling, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	123.3885° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	7.5162° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2 km SE of Dimataling, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-29 04:37:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-21 04:41:30	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	2.2	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	326	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	2.218	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	118	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	us7000pbud	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pbud	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pbud,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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