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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Sarangani in Philippines

Posted by admin on December 7, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 3.6443S, 124.5872WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 217 km SSW of Sarangani, Philippines (135 miles). Exact location, longitude 124.5872° East, latitude 3.6443° North, depth = 307.71 km. The temblor was detected at 20:59:14 / 8:59 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/12/15 / 2015-12-07 12:59:14 / December 7, 2015 @ 12:59 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us100044my. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100044my. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 307.71 km (191 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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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. 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: 217 km SSW of Sarangani, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.5872° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.6443° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 307.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 217km SSW 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 2015-12-07 12:59:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-07 13:14:49 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 3.981 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us100044my Id of event.
Event Code 100044my An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100044my, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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