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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 6 km NNE of Alabel, Philippines


Earthquake location 6.1535S, 125.3163WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Alabel in Philippines on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/10/15 / 2015-10-27 02:32:42 / October 27, 2015 @ 2:32 am. Exact location of event, depth 64.92 km, 125.3163° East, 6.1535° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 64.92 km (40 miles). The temblor was picked up at 10:32:42 / 10:32 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10003rq4. Event ids that are associated: us10003rq4.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gansing, Saguing, Isulan (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 17 km (10 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Bañga (c. 58 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Tacurong (c. 54 600 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Maluñgun (c. 52 200 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

Questions or comments?

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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km NNE of Alabel, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.3163° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.1535° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km NNE of Alabel, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-27 02:32:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-27 02:43:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 326 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 0.946 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us10003rq4 Id of event.
Event Code 10003rq4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003rq4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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