A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Basco in Philippines on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 27/05/25 / 2025-05-27 13:35:00 / May 27, 2025 @ 1:35 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000q1s3. Unique identifier: us7000q1s3. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 121.9262° East, 21.1518° North. The temblor was reported at 13:35:00 / 1:35 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Basco (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Basco (c. 7 300 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 77 km N of Basco, Philippines.

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