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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 5 km NE of Marihatag, Philippines

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Earthquake location 8.8348S, 126.3326WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Marihatag in Philippines. Exact location of event, longitude 126.3326 East, latitude 8.8348 North, depth = 70.604 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 70.604 km (44 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000pn3c. Event ids that are associated: us7000pn3c. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/03/25 / 2025-03-18 14:53:46 / March 18, 2025 @ 2:53 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:53:46 / 2:53 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Socorro, Tubay, Salvacion. Event epicenter was 88 km (54 miles) from Butuan (c. 309 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Libertad (c. 250 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 5 km NE of Marihatag, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.3326° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.8348° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 70.604 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km NE of Marihatag, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-03-18 14:53:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-10 16:14:11 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 312 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.906 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us7000pn3c Id of event.
Event Code 7000pn3c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pn3c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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