A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Masbate in Philippines. Unique identifier: us6000qvm1. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000qvm1. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/07/25 / 2025-07-28 06:35:47 / July 28, 2025 @ 6:35 am. The temblor was picked up at 06:35:47 / 6:35 am (local time epicenter). 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). Exact location of event, longitude 123.6545 East, latitude 12.4243 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Legaspi (c. 179 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Sorsogon (c. 82 700 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Masbate (c. 47 500 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Bulan (c. 28 500 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Irosin (c. 20 700 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Tagas (c. 15 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pantao, Libog, Ligao.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 6 km NNE of Masbate, Philippines.

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