Just 10 minutes ago, a 4.9-magnitude earthquake struck near Surigao, Surigao del Norte, Caraga, Philippines. The tremor was recorded early afternoon on Friday, April 17th, 2026, at 2:47 pm local time, at an intermediate depth of 124. km below the surface.The event was filed by Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency, the first seismological agency to report it.Our monitoring service identified a second report from the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake which listed the quake at magnitude 4.8.Towns or cities near the epicenter where the quake might have been felt as very weak shaking include Dapa (pop. 8,800) located 8 km from the epicenter, Del Carmen, Surigao del Norte (pop. 4,300) 9 km away, Socorro (pop. 9,700) 19 km away, Surigao (pop. 87,800) 54 km away, San Jose (pop. 26,700) 63 km away, Tandag (pop. 29,000) 82 km away, Cabadbaran (pop. 31,100) 89 km away, and Butuan (pop. 309,700) 106 km away.VolcanoDiscovery will automatically update magnitude and depth if these change and follow up if other significant news about the quake become available. If you’re in the area, please send us your experience through our reporting mechanism, either online or via our mobile app. This will help us provide more first-hand updates to anyone around the globe who wants to know more about this quake.Earthquake data: Date & time: Apr 17, 2026 06:47 am (Universal Time) local time (17 Apr 2026 06:47 GMT)Magnitude: 4.8Depth: 128.10 kmEpicenter latitude / longitude: 9.61°N / 125.84°E (Province of Surigao del Norte, Caraga, Philippines)Primary data source: EMSC