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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Tambilil in Philippines

Posted by admin on August 18, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 4.5251S, 123.9998WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 175 km SSW of Tambilil, Philippines (109 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 123.9998 East, latitude 4.5251 North, depth = 449.74 km. Unique identifier: us1000331n. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000331n. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 449.74 km (279 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/08/15 / 2015-08-18 00:15:47 / August 18, 2015 @ 12:15 am. The temblor was detected at 08:15:47 / 8:15 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 175 km SSW of Tambilil, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.9998° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.5251° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 449.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 175km SSW of Tambilil, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-18 00:15:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-18 00:33:13 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 354 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 2.976 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us1000331n Id of event.
Event Code 1000331n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000331n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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