Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Baculin in Philippines

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Baculin in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000pbge. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pbge. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 82.39 km (51 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/02/25 / 2025-02-05 08:03:41 / February 5, 2025 @ 8:03 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 08:03:41 / 8:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 126.8564 East, latitude 7.4306 North, depth = 82.39 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from San Mariano (c. 18 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Cabinuangan (c. 10 800 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Monkayo, Cabinuangan, San Mariano.

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

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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. 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: 30 km E of Baculin, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.8564° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	7.4306° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	82.39 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30 km E of Baculin, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-02-05 08:03:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-25 04:00:13	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	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	43	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.317	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.84 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	119	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	us7000pbge	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pbge	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pbge,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.6 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

126.8564° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

7.4306° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

82.39 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

30 km E of Baculin, Philippines

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2025-02-05 08:03:41

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2025-02-25 04:00:13

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

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

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

The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.

Horizontal Distance

1.317

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.84 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

119

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us7000pbge

Id of event.

Event Code

7000pbge

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us7000pbge,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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