Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Loreto in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Loreto in Philippines on Tuesday. 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) below the earth’s surface. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:29:02 / 4:29 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 125.4515° East, latitude 10.4482° North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/02/25 / 2025-02-25 16:29:02 / February 25, 2025 @ 4:29 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000px7t. Unique identifier: us6000px7t.

Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Maasin (c. 18 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Baybay (c. 17 700 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Tanauan (c. 16 600 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Abuyog (c. 15 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Burauen (c. 14 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Placer, Tanauan, Burauen.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. 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: 16 km NW of Loreto, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.4515° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	10.4482° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16 km NW of Loreto, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-02-25 16:29:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-12 22:03:13	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	284	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	57	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.359	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	73	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	us6000px7t	Id of event.
Event Code	6000px7t	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000px7t,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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