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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Sarangani in Philippines


Earthquake location 5.1068S, 125.8352WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 07:14:11 / 7:14 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 21/06/15 / 2015-06-21 23:14:11 / June 21, 2015 @ 11:14 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us10002np8. Event ids that are associated: us10002np8. Exact location, longitude 125.8352° East, latitude 5.1068° North, depth = 123.62 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 123.62 km (77 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Caburan, Pangyan, Sarangani. Epicenter of the earthquake was 93 km (58 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Pangyan (c. 5 300 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-five 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 52 km SE of Sarangani, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.8352° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.1068° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 123.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52km SE of Sarangani, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-21 23:14:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-13 23:43:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.966 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 us10002np8 Id of event.
Event Code 10002np8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002np8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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