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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 13 km WSW of Sarangani, Philippines

Posted by admin on November 22, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 5.3761S, 125.3437WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 203.14 km (126 miles). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:36:49 / 11:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.3437 East, latitude 5.3761 North, depth = 203.14 km. Unique identifier: us1000409g. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000409g. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/11/15 / 2015-11-22 03:36:49 / November 22, 2015 @ 3:36 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Maluñgun, Polomolok, Conel (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Maluñgun (c. 52 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Buayan (c. 14 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 km WSW of Sarangani, 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 125.3437° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.3761° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 203.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km WSW 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 2015-11-22 03:36:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-22 03:56:03 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 1.698 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 us1000409g Id of event.
Event Code 1000409g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000409g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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