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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Pondaguitan in Philippines


Earthquake location 5.8591S, 126.1841WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Pondaguitan in Philippines. Event id: us1000401e. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000401e. Exact location of earthquake, 126.1841° East, 5.8591° North, depth 68.91 km. The temblor was detected at 10:49:21 / 10:49 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/11/15 / 2015-11-21 02:49:21 / November 21, 2015 @ 2:49 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 68.91 km (43 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Talagutong (c. 8 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Sigaboy (c. 8 000 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Tibanbang (c. 7 800 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Suyan (c. 7 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Union, Sarangani, Suyan.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 five and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 55 km S of Pondaguitan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.1841° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.8591° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 68.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km S 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 2015-11-21 02:49:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-21 03:07:56 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 1.344 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us1000401e Id of event.
Event Code 1000401e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000401e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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