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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near San Benito in Philippines


Earthquake location 9.9557S, 126.0467WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from San Benito in Philippines. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.0467 East, latitude 9.9557 North, depth = 66.69 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002vym. Id of event: us20002vym. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/07/15 / 2015-07-08 12:01:23 / July 8, 2015 @ 12:01 pm. The temblor was picked up at 20:01:23 / 8:01 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 66.69 km (41 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tandag, Kitcharao, Alegria (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Luna (c. 7 800 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km E of San Benito, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.0467° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.9557° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km E of San Benito, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-08 12:01:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-08 12:17:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 355 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.904 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us20002vym Id of event.
Event Code 20002vym An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002vym, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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