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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Pondaguitan in Philippines


Earthquake location 5.5651S, 126.4158WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Pondaguitan in Philippines on Monday. Global time and date of event 30/08/15 / 2015-08-30 22:00:55 / August 30, 2015 @ 10:00 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 126.4158° East, 5.5651° North, depth 120.05 km. The temblor was detected at 06:00:55 / 6:00 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000367d. Unique identifier: us1000367d. The epicenter was at a depth of 120.05 km (75 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). The epicenter was 94 km (59 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Caburan.

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 fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 91 km SSE of Pondaguitan, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.4158° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.5651° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 120.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km SSE of Pondaguitan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-30 22:00:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-30 22:57:14 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 1.71 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 us1000367d Id of event.
Event Code 1000367d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000367d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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