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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Cabugao in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Cabugao in Philippines on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/03/25 / 2025-03-13 21:51:20 / March 13, 2025 @ 9:51 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 67.921 km (42 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:51:20 / 9:51 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000pyp8. Event ids that are associated: us6000pyp8. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 120.4498° East, 17.7988° North, depth 67.921 km.

Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Laoag (c. 102 100 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Batac City (c. 53 500 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Vigan (c. 48 500 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from San Nicolas (c. 34 200 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Santa Maria (c. 28 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Candon (c. 11 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Maria, Suyo, Pasil. Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 1 km NW of Cabugao, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.4498° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.7988° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	67.921 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1 km NW of Cabugao, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-13 21:51:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-14 01:44:54	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	298	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	39	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	5.028	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	241	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	us6000pyp8	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pyp8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pyp8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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